• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Cloning is fairly common. Like aphids will clone during spring and summer and then do sex in autumn.

    • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      This is different. The queen is fertilized by another species, but can only have males of that species with a portion of her own genetic information. When she’s fertilized by her own species, she can produce Queens, haploid workers, and male drones of her species.