Fire ports
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- November 15, 2020
The fire ant can reproduce both sexually and asexually. The worker ants, which are all female, are the result of the normal mating process between a female and a male, but each time the queen wants to create another queen, she chooses to reproduce without a male, asexual reproduction or cloning
![Fire Ant [Courtesy of University of Georgia]](https://www.hayadan.org.il/images/content3/2020/10/Fire_ant2-1024x6351-1-768x476.jpg)
- Dr. Moshe Nahamani
- November 1, 2020
- 6 תגובות
A unique study carried out by entomologists from the University of Georgia led to the discovery of a supergene characteristic of fire ant colonies that determines whether a young ant queen will leave the colony in which she was born in order to establish a new colony of her own or she will join the number of queens in that colony