BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ants inhabit 'world without sex'

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ants inhabit 'world without sex': "An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found.

The ants reproduce via cloning - the queen ants copy themselves to produce genetically identical daughters.

This species - the first ever to be shown to reproduce entirely without sex - cultivates a garden of fungus, which also reproduces asexually."