This finding that some ant queens can lay eggs of another species is astonishing.
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This finding that some ant queens can lay eggs of another species is astonishing. Biology is far stranger than we can possibly imagine.
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This finding that some ant queens can lay eggs of another species is astonishing. Biology is far stranger than we can possibly imagine.
So glad this made it to nature... I think I saw this last year and I was blown away by this whole "arrangement"
Correction: This is another, somewhat similar example of ants having unusual reproductive strategies.
myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Attached: 3 images This is absolutely wild. Two populations of ants (Cataglyphis hispanica) in the deserts of Spain, the same species but separate genetic lineages. All workers are hybrids of both populations but in both cases, through social hybridogenesis the reproductive queens and males are only of one lineage or the other. Queens of both species must mate out to produce workers (hybrids) but the workers never in turn reproduce. They show it's been like this for a long long time! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2396
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
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So glad this made it to nature... I think I saw this last year and I was blown away by this whole "arrangement"
Correction: This is another, somewhat similar example of ants having unusual reproductive strategies.
myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Attached: 3 images This is absolutely wild. Two populations of ants (Cataglyphis hispanica) in the deserts of Spain, the same species but separate genetic lineages. All workers are hybrids of both populations but in both cases, through social hybridogenesis the reproductive queens and males are only of one lineage or the other. Queens of both species must mate out to produce workers (hybrids) but the workers never in turn reproduce. They show it's been like this for a long long time! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2396
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
Wait no... this has happened TWICE with ants in Spain!
Well there are differences, but what is going on over there?
