Why parthenogenesis is common in ant
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Parthenogenesis is more common among parasitic wasps. There are adaptive advantages to jettisoning males, like you get twice the reproductive power per individual. Scientists are not even sure why we need males at all. There are many theories which I won’t go into here, because that’s not your question.
The usual gender-selecting system in wasps, ants, and bees is that males are haploid. They have half the chromosomes of their mother and none from their father. Maybe that’s what you mean by parthenogenesis. The males come from unfertilized eggs. Fertilized eggs are female.
It’s relatively easy in this system to drop the male and just have females. These species have the reproductive advantages of parthenogenesis, but not the flexibility advantages of mating. They tend to go extinct rather than evolving into new species..................i hope it will help u..........
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It is common in ants because in honey bees only female produces ovum and male does not produce, which results in development of ovum without fertilization.