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Re: All male ant colony?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:03 pm
by Martialis
Drones are incapable of caring for themselves, let alone a queen.

Re: All male ant colony?

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:08 pm
by Batspiderfish
Males are basically flying genetic material. They are incapable of surviving on their own and in most cases only live to mate, on one day, before dying.

Re: All male ant colony?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:03 am
by colo3000
The male alates are not the ones that join the colony if they cannot go on nuptial flights. They either mate and die or don't mate and die. Their sole purpose is to fertilize a female alate. However, female alates who cannot go on nuptial flights, usually because they're being kept and in a formicarium and outworld, will eventually start carrying out tasks of normal workers.