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Is the queen or the queen with wings? How does the queen reproduce?

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Do you raise ants? What do you know about the queen? let's take a look at it. 1. Does the queen have wings? In general, queens do not have wings, and breeding ants will break their wings soon after mating, or some post-breed ones.

Do you raise ants? What do you know about the queen? let's take a look at it.

1. Does the queen have wings?

In general, queens do not have wings, and breeding ants will break their wings soon after mating, or some post-breeding ants will return to their original nest after mating with other nest males outside the nest and be stripped of their wings by workers to start a new life.

However, some queens will not remove their wings until they give birth to the second batch of workers.

2. Can the queen reproduce without males?

After mating, the queen no longer needs males. Generally, once mating can lay eggs for life, because the queen has a sperm storage gland in the body, and the male sperm can be retained in the matrix until the queen dies.

3. Can more ants be raised when the queen colony is taken back?

The new virgin queen (the winged queen) can be raised to a certain scale, but the virgin queen needs to go through marriage and flying to mate before she can become a real queen, and the female and male ants in the same nest will not mate, so there can be no more queens in the home-raised queen colony.

4. Can males and queens mate in the same nest?

This is not allowed, and like human society, ants do not "marry next of kin".

 
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