@futurebird this is sort of what I heard before which is the Queen works for the workers, and is kind of at their mercy, but I don't have that much lived experience about this. Maybe the queen should be putting on the makeup like, "if I lay eggs for them, they will take care of me when I'm old" but the difficult thing is I'm still thinking about ants from a human perspective. As if I were a human ant. It is difficult for me to get in the ant mindset.