Question

In a colony of honeybees, the diploid bees are

• A. drones
• B. queen bee and worker bees
• C. all the bees
• D. king bees

Answer 1

The correct option is B queen bee and worker bees

Honeybees are social insects and live together in hives. The colony of honeybees includes queen, worker and drones.

Both the queen bee and worker bees are diploid females as they develop from the fertilised eggs.

Here the queen is a functional fertile female, whereas all the worker bees are sterile and their purpose is to work for their entire life span.

Male bees are haploid as they develop from the unfertilised eggs (parthenogenesis) and are called drones.

King bees do not exist in the colony of honeybees.