Ants provide one of the best examples of the division of labor in animal societies. While the
queens reproduce, workers generally refrain from laying eggs and dedicate themselves
exclusively to domestic tasks. In many species, the small diploid larvae are bipotent and can
develop either into workers or queens depending mostly on environmental cues. This
generates a conflicting situation between the adults that tend to rear a majority of larvae into
workers and the larvae whose individual interest may be to develop into reproductive …