@ninawillburger You should add a little text bubble saying "Oh, bollocks". It's probably the last thing he thought.

Edit: he was a she.

@davep @ninawillburger

*she

@futurebird

How can you tell? (sorry, I'm totally ignorant when it comes to...well any biology🤦)

@davep @ninawillburger

@FandaSin @davep @ninawillburger

How can you tell the sex of an ant? Generally if the ant has no wings it's female. All worker ants are female. Male ants are very rare and in most species they will have wings. So if you see an ant without wings (most ants) it's female.

If you see an ant that has wings it's called an "alate" there is a 50/50 chance it's female in that case. Queen alates tend to have larger heads, male alates have very small heads and big eyes.

Bees are also mostly female.

@futurebird @FandaSin @davep @ninawillburger

male bees (I think the same goes for male ants) are only around for a certain part of the year.
When the mating season is over worker bees will drag their brothers (who do not work... all they do is sleep, eat, try to fertilize a queen bee) out of the hive to starve and freeze.