I believe ants and honey bees have genetically-coded and baked-in specializations like worker and queen bees

    • @[email protected]
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      214 days ago

      That’s crazy! How is a colony defined, is it one queen is managing the whole 6000km territory?

      • I Cast Fist
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        214 days ago

        Under normal circumstances, a colony would be the place where the ant population lives, the number of queens just has to be equal or greater than 1, as they can have multiple in a single place.

        This supercolony is, from what I understood, a huge quantity of colonies that are interconnected, so you could trek from Portugal to Italy entirely within its tunnels, kinda like a state or country connected by roads