Polyandry in social Hymenoptera — disunity in diversity?

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Life histories and parasite pressure across the major groups of social insects. (2005, background): “Glancey, B.M., Vander Meer, R.K., Glover, A., Lofgren, C.S. and Vinson, S.B. (1981) Filtration of microparticles from liquids ingested by the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).”
Multiple nuptial flights, sperm transfer and the evolution of extreme polyandry in honeybee queens (2005, unknown): “garded as highly plausible (Crozier & Page 1985; Palmer & Oldroyd 2000; Crozier & Fjerdingstad 2001; Tarpy & Page 2001).”
One Giant Leap: How Insects Achieved Altruism and Colonial Life (2008, background): “Further correlative evidence favoring the hypothesis of disease resistance has been obtained in species of ants and other social insects in which the queen increases the genetic diversity of her worker progeny by mating with multiple males (Crozier and Fjerdingstad 2001, Denny et al. 2004).”
Sperm limitation and the evolution of extreme polyandry in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) (2004, background): “Despite intensive research in the last decades (e.g. Cole 1983; Crozier and Page 1985; Boomsma and Ratnieks 1996; Palmer and Oldroyd 2000; Crozier and Fjerdingstad 2001, among others), the phenomenon of multiple mating by queens (=polyandry) is still one of the unsolved riddles in the evolution of…”