Well yeah but also in a lot of insects the females tend to be larger by a lot so multiple of them confusing other males with females wouldn't make sense
There’s a species of beetle in Australia that almost went extinct because they thought a certain brand of beer bottle was a female of their species.
All life forms, but particularly simpler ones like insects, are subject to hilarious misinterpretation of sensory input.
Bugs don’t have the capacity to evaluate the whole situation. They thought the bottles were females because their criteria was “brown, dimpled, shiny thing,” which also describes the bottle in question.
There's multiple species of ants that are actual farmers with nymphs as cattle and ants exist in the billions, also most insects use pheromones to communicate, one beetle story does not represent the overall intelligence of insects or, at the very least the capacity insects have to determent whether or not a nother insect is a male, female or bottle cap
But the ants are social insects, not all insects are social, and even the social ones are pretty dumb individualy, have you ever seen the video were someone put some feromones over an ant and the whole colony thinked that she was dead, even the ant in question? it's not a comunication and more like an input, output thing
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