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How often do Queen ants reproduce other Queen ants?

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Normally, a new generation of male and queen ants is produced once a year. The reason is that it takes a considerable amount of food to raise them and once they hatched, they have to be fed. read more

Army Ants: Ants Popular for Other Reasons And then there are ants that reproduce by other means entirely. Take, for example, army ants of the genus Eciton. These ants produce no winged alate virgin queens. Instead, they reproduce in a way similar to stingless bees (and somewhat similar to honeybees). read more

A queen ant (formally known as a gyne) is an adult, reproducing female ant in an ant colony; generally she will be the mother of all the other ants in that colony. Some female ants, such as Cataglyphis cursor, do not need to mate to produce offspring, reproducing through asexual parthenogenesis or cloning, and all of those offspring will be female. read more

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