A form of asexual reproduction found in some insects and crustaceans where unfertilized eggs develop into males and fertilized eggs into females.
From Greek 'arren' (male) + 'tokos' (birth or offspring) plus '-y' (forming nouns). This scientific term was coined in the late 19th century as entomologists studied bee reproduction.
Honeybees use arrhenotoky—the queen can choose whether to fertilize an egg, and unfertilized ones become drones while fertilized ones become workers, giving her remarkable control over her colony's sex ratio and genetic strategy.
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