I spend a fair amount of time talking about this amazing ant paper from last year: www.nature.com/articles/s41... where the females produce offspring of two different species! Wild! 🐜
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
This week's episode is WILD. Enjoy @nhcooper123.bsky.social explaining how incredibly complex and amazing biology can be, and @joshlukedavis.com sharing some wild stories of some of his favourite species. A nice Mediterranean thread running through this too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=prVe... 🐘 🐝🥬🐜.
