Though they have wings and depend on their fellow clonal raider ants to take care of them, these queenlike mutants still sometimes carry larvae around like workers do.
Buck Trible
Clonal raiders are stocky ants about 1 millimeter long that originated in Bangladesh and have since become an invasive pest in China, India, and tropical and subtropical islands around the world. Whereas most ant species have a queen that lays eggs while workers gather food for her and the colony’s young, as well as themselves, clonal raiders lack queens. Instead, workers lay eggs that develop as more workers, clones of themselves.
Over the next 7 years, entomologist Waring “Buck” Trible, the new study’s lead author, tested and observed the winged clonal raiders and found they laid more eggs than their nestmates and were much less likely to leave the nest to scout out or raid other ants’ nests. These aberrant ants are a perfectParasitic ants are not uncommon.
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