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so all the worker ants (and the same in bees) are all females?
Not only all females but all sisters. The Queen is the only one who is not a sister to the others, she is the biological mother of all of them. The only times any males are hatched is when new queens are formed.The new queens will go off and start new colonies. This happens at least once a year and at that time many thousands of Drones (Males) are produced. Usually many hive/nests/colonies will be producing queens at the same time and usually the drone will mate with a queen from one of those. out of all the drones produced the queens will only mate one time with just one. That will keep her fertile for the rest of her life. In her life time the typical queen will have many thousands of off spring, possibly even millions.
While there are several other species of creatures that are colonial and act as a single creature, I believe the ant/bee family are the only group in which all members are from the same mother.
A good argument to toss at an atheist is how can there be more than one species of ant as the genetic pool is closed and leaves no room for evolutionary changes, yet there are hundreds of ant species. I suppose the atheist is stuck in explaining how a random bit of development could have been repeated hundreds of times.
