how could the queen have been fertile
the queen was still a pupa i have not heard of a pupa capable of holding fertile offspring or being fertilized. therefore the idea that a pupa could repopulate an entire colony is impossible.
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I don't recall the details from the book. However, you are making the error of assuming that an non-Terran species is biologically the same as Terran ones. For all we know, the queen's are born holding their entire fertilized eggs. Or not. We don't know.
I see this a lot. People will criticize that a non-human acts like a human when they are not. But then they turn around and criticize the biology for not following biological science, that is Terran biology.
Life will find a way.
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