Curiously, female sweat bees, as are most others bees, wasps, and ants in the order Hymenoptera, are haplodiploid organisms, in which fertilized eggs become female young and unfertilized eggs become males.
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Haplodiploid
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1 entries- haplodiploïde adj (in which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid)
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