They recently discovered that Iberian harvester ant queens are able to produce offspring of a completely different species, ...

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The research was published in the journal Nature earlier this month. It was carried out by a team of international scientists ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...

French scientists from the University of Montpellier have discovered an unusual reproductive strategy Iberian male ants. According to the results of field and laboratory observations, it was found, ...

Some queen ants are known to mate with other species to produce hybrid workers ... When she reproduces, she can do so asexually, producing a clone of herself. She can also fertilize her egg with the ...