Tag: Ant

Ant tribes with college degreesChina's double digit growth rate during the financial crisis, has been the envy of the World. And yet, many Chinese are still not reaping the rewards of the economic boom. That includes the millions of graduates entering the workforce each year. They're becoming part of a phenomenon called 'Ant Tribes', as Henry Morton explains.

ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2010) The complete asexuality of a widespread fungus-gardening ant, the only ant species in the world known to have dispensed with males entirely, has been confirmed by a team of Texas and Brazilian researchers.

Most social insectsthe wasps, ants and beesare relatively used to daily life without males. Their colonies are well run by swarms of sterile sisters lorded over by an egg-laying queen. But, eventually, all social insect species have the ability to produce a crop of males who go forth in the world to fertilize new queens and propagate.