[Backstory: In the past months, I researched many scientific articles in order to take male individuals from my Messor syriacus colony and release them into nature, and I learned that workers can lay male eggs by parthenogenesis. I put this into practice and the major worker, which I kept apart from its nest for about a month, laid around 20-30 male eggs (with n chromosomes), but before they reached adulthood, I released them back to the colony I bought with their mother, but they attacked her and did not raise the eggs, I did not get any results. Today, in my colony, I noticed a super-major worker that attracted attention with its size, and when I looked closely, I noticed that it had a vestigial wing-like structure. Normally, I would do the male production process close to the flying season (approximately March 10-20 in my country), but when this strange major caught my attention, I moved the date of the process a little earlier.]
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