What Jan wrote about is not limited to female siblings…that is true of ANY siblings, or cousins of the same age, no matter what gender. The strip would be better featuring Max and Alix or Max and Luci if she could talk. But Holly was talking what she learned about ants in her biology class so Jan claimed that to be true for only human sisters to stay on the topic of the worker ants being sisters. And I am going to google that up to see if that is even true.
I don’t know where Jan got the info but Google source cited that worker ants are all females, not sisters. The likelihood of them being sister is possible considering they are in the same colony as the queen who mates with several males, making them more likely sisters and half sisters and a whole bunch of cousins, but to cite that as to be an absolute fact is difficult as it is just a theory based on deductions and observations. Only absolute is the worker ants are females.
Templo S.U.D. almost 7 years ago
If I recall, drone ants are brothers. I wonder what THAT’S like.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Can confirm; am a sister.
debra4life almost 7 years ago
I concur, Nicole. I have 3 sisters. Jan has it so right,
jackhs almost 7 years ago
So if I scoosh a bunch of ants, am I anti-female?
Dani Rice almost 7 years ago
Those are sisters, believe me.
somebodyshort almost 7 years ago
If you have kids of any gender, you’ve heard all of those lines many times over.
capricorn9th almost 7 years ago
What Jan wrote about is not limited to female siblings…that is true of ANY siblings, or cousins of the same age, no matter what gender. The strip would be better featuring Max and Alix or Max and Luci if she could talk. But Holly was talking what she learned about ants in her biology class so Jan claimed that to be true for only human sisters to stay on the topic of the worker ants being sisters. And I am going to google that up to see if that is even true.
capricorn9th almost 7 years ago
I don’t know where Jan got the info but Google source cited that worker ants are all females, not sisters. The likelihood of them being sister is possible considering they are in the same colony as the queen who mates with several males, making them more likely sisters and half sisters and a whole bunch of cousins, but to cite that as to be an absolute fact is difficult as it is just a theory based on deductions and observations. Only absolute is the worker ants are females.
kab buch almost 7 years ago
Sorry not my family. My sister tried to get out lot of work. Once married she had to do her own housework. For ants they just carry each burdens.
Charlie Tuba almost 7 years ago
I would think that worker ants have no gender. Queens are female and drones are male.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
Ants, bees, termites their workers have different jobs including clean up, digging, feeding the newly born ones etc.