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Originally Posted by KS Smitty
Which, if any, of these are native to North America? Are bees hybridized by cross breeding?
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After a queen hatches, she flies to a drone congregation area, DCA (drones are boy bees)
She gets mated by 4-8 drones (in-flight mind you.) She returns to the hive with enough sperm to last the rest of her egg laying life.
When laying, she decides when to lay a fertilized egg that becomes a female bee, and when to withhold the sperm to lay an unfertilized egg that becomes a boy bee. Boy bees are haploid.
So her dna mixes with whatever sperm she received during mating flights to create more purebreeds or mutts, depending.
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