where do queen ants come from?

Question

are they born a special way or does a worker ant get chosenor something?

Answer 1

Once the colony has established itself, the queen ant will continuously lay eggs. At the time of egg-laying, the queen may choose to fertilize eggs at will by using the sperm cells retained from the nuptial flight,[6] which will create female worker ants instead of males. If the fertilized eggs and pupae are well-nurtured, they could potentially become queens as well.

Answer 2

Queen Of Ants

Answer 3

Here, in the spring, a select number of pupae are made queen by the passing of secretions. Males are made at the same time. You can have a week or more of daily flights of the males and females mating. Once mated the males die and the females shed their wings and start a new nest.

I a existing queen dies for some reason, some pupae will become queens and take over her duties.

Answer 4

Make little smaller then pea sized balls of peanut butter and boric acid. They will take the food back to the nest and the queen and her consorts will feed on it an die. Without a queen the nest will die. They will make a new queen but her first job is to eat the old queen who has eaten the poison.

Answer 5

the first 2 posters are correct cayla

i like the idea of a mother/queen