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Flying Ants (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Never thought about the grandfather thing. I organized many father son weekends for ants and noone ever attended. Maybe grandfather son weekend is the way to go?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is the facepalm because now the people want to know more about the ants?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

I met a guy at a bar once who was about ants at a bar one time. Wouldn't stop talking about them. To get him to put the dimorphism into perspective I asked how Lage the women in the bar would be if the human ratio was like ants.

It was cool because I'd never gotten the opportunity to watch someone develop a fetish in real time before.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Within ants...males are produced from unfertilised eggs..."

So male ants are more like eggs with legs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But, that's sperm, right? Half the chromosomes, like an egg, only motile.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

an unfertilized egg is just an egg.

like chicken eggs are unfertilized eggs because no sperm fertilized them.

If male ants are derived solely from the female gamete, the ovum, or egg, then male ants are eggs with legs, which is good, because it rhymes.

sperm is a male gamete, a different little thing than the female gamete, an egg.

as for the meme, they would all have grandfathers because the sperm was needed to make the queen who birthed the male ants, but none of them would have direct fathers, because the male ants are derived solely from the ovum of the queen.