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A (probably ridiculous) question about bees posed by my six year old

I was reading The Magic School Bus book about bees tonight to 6 yr old, and got to a bit that showed when 'girl' bee-larvae get fed Royal Jelly, they become Queens, otherwise they simply become workers.

6 yr old the asked if boy bees are fed Royal Jelly, do they become Kings?

I explained that it there was no such thing as a King bee, and it probably never happened that a 'boy' bee was fed Royal Jelly, but he insisted I 'ask the internet people', so here I am.

Has anyone ever tested feeding a 'boy' larval bee Royal Jelly? If so what was the result?
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In honeybees, the males are haploid and have only 16 chromosomes. Their genome is entirely derived from the queen. Drones produce sperm cells that contain their entire genome, so the sperm are all genetically identical (except for mutations). The genetic makeup of the female bees is half from the mother and half from the father (male bee). Most female bees are worker bees, the ones that are to become queens are specially selected by the workers to become a Queen.  

While the Magic School Bus has simplified things for ease, in actuality all larvae in the colony are fed royal jelly, regardless of sex or caste. However, those chosen to become Queens are fed copious amounts of royal jelly which triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs (mostly by changing the DNA methylation patterns in the future queens).

So, to get back to the question, if a male larvae was fed the royal jelly "by accident" -- not much would happen as it wouldn't make the male diploid.  Now it may cause some methylation changes, which could interfere with behavioral responses of the male, but in general it wouldn't make him a king.