I got Jim's ant book. I'm happy that he healed the "baby ant" that he accidentally crushed. BUT - he claims the baby ant was there with it's mom and dad. That's not at all true. haha. Jim did that up at Franconia too - he did a "qitalk" at the Guild meeting claiming that the chipmunk living outside the house was going into the wall and then living in the basement of the house. No the sounds in the basement were the mice, not the chipmunk. haha. I know Jim has amazing spiritual healing abilities but he projected a bourgeois "commodity unit" family onto the ants! haha. So I had to look this up -
"Within a few days after they have emerged (eclosed) from the pupa case, males are "quickly converted into single-purpose sexual missiles."[2] Young queens and males stay in their parent colony until conditions are right for the nuptial flight"And then the queen after that does all the reproduction for the ants. So the worker ants are the females and the males die right after having sex with the "princess ants" that turn into the queen.
- A clear division of labour, segregated into castes.
- Generational overlap, which is to say, parents and offspring live together inside the nest.
- Adults cooperating in both nest-building and brood care.
- That only a few females reproduce; the rest are functionally or behaviorally sterile.
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