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Kerrigan Tobin
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PhD student at Marquette University interested in BEEhavior, ecology, and evolution
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May 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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This creature from that nest remains and probably always will be the coolest thing I've found: the bilateral gynandromorph Polyergus longicornis; half worker, half winged male alate. A They/Them Ant. 🖤❤️
Still feels kind of surreal!
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Black and red ant split neatly down the middle head to gaster; the black half being the male alate, and the red the female worker. The black half has a wing, the red does not. View of the other side of the creature, the red worker half. Top down view; the single translucent wing is covering nearly the whole gaster. The head and thorax is red on the right, black on the left. The creature, facing you, showing off the wild difference between each half. The worker mandible is like 4x the size of the alate mandible. The alate eye is roughly twice the size of the worker eye.
March 22, 2024 at 3:03 AM