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[AntaholicAnonymous]

Does anyone know if you can brood boost this species?
If so genetics wouldn't matter much the scent is not just determined by genetics.

If you have any dead workers and one hangs around them much they get that smell on them and other workers will try to put them in the graveyard. Maybe this ant was carrying around a dead guy and had the scent on him that does happen sometimes.

The smell will go away eventually tho so if that's the case they should stop after a while
Does anyone know if you can brood boost this species?
If so genetics wouldn't matter much the scent is not just determined by genetics.

If you have any dead workers and one hangs around them much they get that smell on them and other workers will try to put them in the graveyard. Maybe this ant was carrying around a dead guy and had the scent on him that does happen sometimes.

The smell will go away eventually tho so if that's the case they should stop after a while

[AntaholicAnonymous]

Let me drop off my theory on genes real quick.

The workers themselves don't pass on any genes since they don't reproduce.
Only queens and males mate so it doesn't really matter what genes the workers have since they won't pass them on directly anyways.

That means there is no evolutionary disadvantage with importing brood since they help just as much with raising the new set of reproductives with the queens genetics.


The way worker genes get passed on is by their ability to raise the colony so superior worker genetics also means higher likely hood of the queens making it that will represent their genetics in future generations.