A recently mated Lasius niger ant queen has two main options when she founds a nest. She can either 1) found a nest alone or, 2) team up with another queen and found a nest as a pair. The best option and reason is ...   A. option 2 - because she can immediately kill and feed on the second queen using her resources to rear her own offspring   B. option 1 - because she avoids a competitor   C. option 2 - because she will benefit indirectly from the reproduction of the second queen because they are related   D. option 2 - because by combining forces with the unrelated queen they produce more workers which increases the success of brood raiding of neighbouring colonies by daughter workers

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A recently mated Lasius niger ant queen has two main options when she founds a nest. She can either 1) found a nest alone or, 2) team up with another queen and found a nest as a pair. The best option and reason is ...

  A.

option 2 - because she can immediately kill and feed on the second queen using her resources to rear her own offspring

  B.

option 1 - because she avoids a competitor

  C.

option 2 - because she will benefit indirectly from the reproduction of the second queen because they are related

  D.

option 2 - because by combining forces with the unrelated queen they produce more workers which increases the success of brood raiding of neighbouring colonies by daughter workers

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