Ok im going to throw in my theory's here
1 Worker class mudds are sterile just like worker class glukkons. OW said so.
2 the Royal Jelly thing micht be some thing, but in bees and ants the workers are female in the first place and the Royal Jelly stimulates them into growing into queens.
So abe would be a sterile female.
That dousent go down with me verry well.
So im guessing some thing else happens. When the Queen ages to a serten point she starts to lay special eggs every now and then (1 egg on every 1000 eggs orsomething) wich when brought up in the right conditions will produce a queen.
Other wise it will produece a sterile female.
I think abe and his buddys are sterrile male's. And when fed the royyal yelly when theyr baby's they become fertile males.
Thios is an easy evelutionary step since you stop the developement at a point that they are half way and when they hatch the developement continues when they are fed royal yelly and stops there when they arn't.
I dont think the queen would bare with out fertilization. Becous she would make perfect coppy's of here self.
Wich isent good for evelution becous the less variation in a species the more likely it'll dyout when the environment changes or some new desease rears its head.
So that whas my two cent's
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