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If female worker ants can reproduce then why do they need a queen?
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If female worker ants can reproduce then why do they need a queen?

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Without a queen to lay eggs. There are no new members added to the colony. Since all the workers are sterile. Therefore, the ants do not survive long without the queen.
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