BBC:

An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found.

The ants reproduce via cloning - the queen ants copy themselves to produce genetically identical daughters.

This species - the first ever to be shown to reproduce entirely without sex - cultivates a garden of fungus, which also reproduces asexually.

Clearly the ants merely copy the mighty fungus, which also generously allows them to feed upon it. All life stems from the fungus, and shall return to the fungus in time.

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