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by gus_massa 764 days ago
> Who is the mother in an anthill?

Except the queen, all the other ants are the daugthers of the queen.

IIRC thermites have many "queens" and "kings". I'm not sure about social wasps.
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cess11 764 days ago
Right, so the queen lays the eggs, and there her care stops. Is she the mother since she made the eggs, or would the drones that care for them be the mothers?
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gus_massa 764 days ago
The drones are the male ants. They just go away to find a new queen and die, while the new queen makes a new colony.

The new born ants are feed and cared by their sisters.

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cess11 763 days ago
Yeah, sorry, got the drones mixed up.
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