Fun fact: most known ant species' workers are 0.01% genetically different than each other (ie. queen[s]:mate[s] ratio), and therefore are closer to clones than individual consciousnesses, strictly speaking. ☝🏼🤓

The thing that makes him a clown is thinking the queen is in charge.

I ant serious, and don’t call me Shirley.

But the proteins compel me.

I love how the first clown makeup iteration was built in by nature of this being a false color EM

It is in their nature to work like this. They are specialised drones serving that exact purpose. The queen is btw no different. It is the DNA housing drone that produces all kind of drones. Their brains are pheromonally connected. Most possibly they share one brain (and consciousness) and are equipped for some brain parts "getting lost". It is anthropomorphizing to assume that they act like a human kingdom, where the queen (or king) is the upmost of all things to achieve in one or the other way. Ants are also all female. Only drones for mating are male.

You could also make meme about queen working hard in hope for retirement :)

Lol so many people in this thread have been brainwashed.

Do you y'all seriously believe in Ants??!??

Holy shit why did I do this I'm laughing so hard right now

what happened to 40(?) percent of workers sitting idle to act as backups?

Kropotkin in a nutshell

Toxic Yuri.