Honeybees produce their young ones only by sexual reproduction. Inspite of this,in a colony of bees we find both haploid and diploid individuals. Name the haploid and diploid individuals in the colony and analyse the reasons behind their formation.

(N/A) The colony of honey bees has three types of members:
$(i)$ Diploid queen: Fertile females.
$(ii)$ Worker bees: Sterile females.
$(iii)$ Drones: Haploid males.
An offspring formed from the fertilization of a sperm and an egg develops as a female (queen or worker),which is diploid. An unfertilized egg develops into a male (drone) through a process called parthenogenesis. This results in males having half the number of chromosomes compared to females,making them haploid.