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If you think your dry spell is hard, try being a turtle ant queen. In this video, Brain Scoop's Emily Graslie chats with Dr. Corrie Moreau, who works as a curator of insects at the Field Museum in Chicago.

According to Dr. Moreau, ants can still reproduce when there are no males in the colony through spermatheca. If you watch one video about ant sex today, be sure it's this one: