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Lara Joy Evans, Embryonic Chamber No.01, 2023

Lara Joy Evans

Embryonic Chamber No.01
2023
digital painting
courtesy of the artist

Over her lifetime, an African driver ant queen109 produces about 250 million eggs.110,111

  • Dorylus wilverthi
  • At an average rate of four million eggs per month, a queen lays approximately ten eggs in the time it takes you to read this sentence.
  • Raigner & van Boven, 1955