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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a species of ant that lays eggs of a different species of ant.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Dani551@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I admire this guy's dropping an ant fact like this and then refusing to elaborate

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

I'm busy playing boardgames. And it was a fact. Mission accomplished.

[–] Dani551@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think they're referring to this species. Although the cloning aspect adds yet another layer of wtf on top.

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cloning is fairly common. Like aphids will clone during spring and summer and then do sex in autumn.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

This is different. The queen is fertilized by another species, but can only have males of that species with a portion of her own genetic information. When she's fertilized by her own species, she can produce Queens, haploid workers, and male drones of her species.