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In honey bees, sex determination follows a haplodiploid mechanism.

Females, which include the queen and worker bees, develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid.

Males, known as drones, develop from unfertilized eggs through a process called parthenogenesis (specifically arrhenotoky). Therefore, they are haploid.

The consumption of Royal jelly by a female larva determines whether it will develop into a fertile queen or a sterile worker, but it does not lead to the formation of a drone.

Answer: parthenogenesis of unfertilized egg