Talk:Queen ant

Sires

What on earth does the phrase "the queen ant sires" mean? 166.248.52.82 (talk) 20:55, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

An established colony

Talk-page comments are often negative and critical. For a change of pace, I just wanted to say, I love this well written and engaging passage:

The term "queen" is often deceptive, as the queen ant has very little control over the colony as a whole. She has no known authority or decision making control ...

All too often, the Wikipedia battlefield spawns articles which, defensively, become prosaic or pedantic. This passage is risky, but insightful in acknowledging its whimsy. I think this kind of personal touch adds more value to a Wikipedia article than 1,000 bullet-proof, fully attributed citations. Rangergordon (talk) 09:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Taking time off from laying eggs

Even though the article says their sole function is to lay eggs, I've often observed Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) queens leave the nest in order to go after poison bait, along with swarms of workers. This species almost invariably has multiple queens in each nest, and in the southwestern United States, at least, the genetic variation over the entire population is reportedly so small that it acts like a gigantic super-colony. Maybe that allows them the luxury of risking the lives of several queens if they should decide to go out and forage on their own. It also makes it difficult to control or eradicate the nests of these foreign invaders.—Quicksilver^{T @} 13:53, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

How old could she be?

I heard that an queens can live up to 20 years, which is the largest life span among the insects. any info on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.90.32.26 (talk) 09:51, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Smartness.

Does anyone think that ant queens are smart enough to tell their followers to attack one person, but not the other? The reason that they do not attack the other, is maybe because the queen knows that the person who does not get attacked, supplies them food? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.57.189.252 (talk) 04:57, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Caste determination and sexual maturity

This article states the primary determining factor in caste and sexual maturity is the level of nutrition in the larvae, however citations in the main ant article show that this may not be etirely true. Genetic factors may play a much larger role. Can anyone clarify this and fix either this article or the main ant article? they can't both be entierly correct. It is most likely a combination of the two, or differs between ant species. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.154.3.140 (talk) 19:11, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

No mention in this article of where male ants come from. Also, once functioning colony queens, can the queen still mate, or can she only utilize the stored sperm? AK - 3 June 2017 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1970:4FA1:1500:2C52:AD30:3BBF:6593 (talk) 16:10, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

helpful article

Many questions will find answers here: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/february/gordon-queen-ants-021113.html Geoffel1957 (talk) 18:12, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Ant Queen Activity

It would be interested to know:

1. What type of environmental stimulus do queen ants use to know when to leave for their nuptial flight? 2. What time of day are queen ants active when they are trying to establish a colony?

This article is very cool and I think ants are a fascinating family of Hymenopterans!

Joeshmo265 (talk) 17:05, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Where in the bed do the Queen's live? BECKYINGLIS (talk) 20:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Reproduction

I made a number of changes to the section on reproduction and some other minor edits as well. There is room for further improvements. For one, the lede has more specific details than does the main article. Also, nothing is stated about the reproductive (egg-laying) system nor egg rate (eggs per day), which no doubt varies species to species. And ... some of my additions lack citations. GeeBee60 (talk) 17:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Queen ants reproduction

Queen ants laid eggs about 1000 🥚 103.252.200.144 (talk) 15:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Okay we will discuss about the Queen ant laid eggs tomorrow also can or today can you discide first you will contact me tomorrow 103.252.200.144 (talk) 15:13, 27 November 2023 (UTC)