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Claustral Queens

Started By FloridaAnts , May 9 2022 12:37 PM

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#1 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted May 9 2022 - 12:37 PM

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When looking at the ant photography thread,(https://www.formicul...-42#entry211184) I started think due to AntCali’s picture. In founding, do fully claustral queen ants use more than just their thorax muscle? I thought ocelli were only used for navigating in the air, so what use would the queen have for them? Would a fully claustral queen’s body eat her ocelli muscle?

(This may be a very dumb question to ask, but I am curious)

Edited by FloridaAnts, May 9 2022 - 12:38 PM.

#2 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted May 10 2022 - 4:58 AM

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Neither the compound eyes or ocelli have external muscles, ants eyes are in a fixed position. Ants change their point of view by turning their head or by changing their body’s position. The attached link is to a paper on Camponotus consobrinus eye anatomy. Though the paper uses dissection and microscopy to clarify the function of the compound eye and ocelli and determine the difference between them in male and female alates, no external eye muscles are noted.

https://www.nature.c...s/srep22331.pdf