Lasius workers laying eggs

[AntsDakota]

I have a Lasius colony of which the queen escaped, and I have over 100 eggs, and the pile is growing. A worker must be laying eggs, and I hope they're fertilized, and I have a gamergate. Even if they aren't, I hope the workers survive until I can release the males into nuptial flight.

[Wardword]

I have a Lasius colony of which the queen escaped, and I have over 100 eggs, and the pile is growing. A worker must be laying eggs, and I hope they're fertilized, and I have a gamergate. Even if they aren't, I hope the workers survive until I can release the males into nuptial flight.

What's happening is a last ditch effort to spread some genes, in this case the genes of their fathers.
These worker eggs will produce clones of their fathers, male alate ants only, they will raise them, send them off to breed and then die out.

[AntsDakota]

I have a Lasius colony of which the queen escaped, and I have over 100 eggs, and the pile is growing. A worker must be laying eggs, and I hope they're fertilized, and I have a gamergate. Even if they aren't, I hope the workers survive until I can release the males into nuptial flight.

What's happening is a last ditch efforts to spread some genes, in this case the genes of their fathers.
These worker eggs will produce clones of their fathers, male alate ants only, they will raise them, send them off to breed and then die out.

I figured that might be the case.

[antnest8]

it may be that some of the eggs hatched into larvae witch are bigger than eggs

[AntsDakota]

it may be that some of the eggs hatched into larvae witch are bigger than eggs

All eggs have hatched into larvae making the pile much larger. Although I am pretty sure that the workers were laying more eggs.

[Batspiderfish]

Almost. Haploid eggs from workers and unfertilized queens will become males, but that genetic material can be drawn just as easily from the female's mother as with her father. With rare exceptions, there is nothing which distinguishes "male chromosomes" from "female chromosomes" in ants except for the number of copies.

Workers of many species will lay eggs in the absence of a queen.