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[–]VioletRemihomosexual female (aka - lesbian) 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Depends on bugs. Some bugs are all female (like bees), with only few males, and one reproducing queen. Soldiers most often are sexless. And new queen is born in the way that worker bee eats royal jelly, this matures her body and she become fertile and can produce eggs now.

It is very crude explanation, and for different bug species it works differently, but roughly it is like that.

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    [–]VioletRemihomosexual female (aka - lesbian) 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

    Soldiers it is about ant's, there workers are sexless too. Soldiers and workers. Ony sexed ones are queen, (in some species also king, who is sex slave) and winged messengers. Winged messengers are males, who are flying into other colonies to fertilize eggs there - it is way to have gene diversity.

    https://www.abis.com.au/termite-life-cycle-behaviour

    And bees:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_bee

    [–]kwallio 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    They are not sexless, they are female like the queen.