▲ | twnettytwo 4 days ago | |
Not a biologist but IIRC, male ants develop from unfertilized eggs (and are 'haploid'), and the sperm has no role in the production of male ants. Any fertilized egg produces a female ant. This would proably mean that the queen has means to produce two kinds of eggs, which is quite interesting. | ||
▲ | mr_toad 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
Yes, but normally those males are genetic clones of the mother, and couldn’t be a different species. |