Fertilized eggs develop into females, which can become queens or workers, and unfertilized eggs develop into males, which can do nothing but inseminatefemales.
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The sperm is used to artificially inseminatefemales, a job which can be undertaken about 3-7 days after a female has mated.
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Field- inseminatedfemales were trapped weekly and their genotypes and those of their mates were determined through genetic testing.