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by twnettytwo 269 days ago
Not a biologist but IIRC, male ants develop from unfertilized eggs (and are 'haploid'), and the sperm has no role in the production of male ants. Any fertilized egg produces a female ant. This would proably mean that the queen has means to produce two kinds of eggs, which is quite interesting.
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Yes, but normally those males are genetic clones of the mother, and couldn’t be a different species.