Larva

Larva ant queen looks like an alien doll in trippy new microscope images

(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists don’t know why the ant is covered in doorknob-like lumps. Every queen needs a crown. For the queen ant Monomorium triviale, that crown bursts and bubbles out of her head, back and abdomen while she’s still a larva leaving worker ants little confusion about who’s the boss, even when the boss is a baby. M. triviale are amber-colored ants native to China, Japan and South Korea.…