And judging by his squeaky voice, it's a character from "Antz" that has no Ant Testicles.

it's because Pharrell Williams looks like a character from the movie, "Antz"

Terilicious said:

Both are really cute.

Ants have bigger testicles than him.

Reproductive caste differentiation is essential for insect eusociality.
In the vast majority of ants, caste differentiation is associated
with morphological differentiation; queens have well
developed ovaries and spermathecae, and workers possess reduced
reproductive organs. The reproductive apparatus has been completely
lost in workers of higher ant species (Holldobler & Wilson
1990). However, in the subfamily Ponerinae in which morphological
specialization is less developed than that in the higher subfamilies,
a few species have no morphologically distinct queens
(Peeters 1990). Alternatively, some mated workers (=gamergates)
lay eggs instead. To date, such queenless species have been known
to occur in 7 genera of 3 tribes, Ectatommini, Ponerini and
Plathyreini (Peeters 1990).
In Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, I obtained some colonies of
Amblyopone sp. (reclinata group) as the first record of gamergate
reproduction in the primitive tribe Amblyoponini. In this paper I
give preliminary data concerning the composition of these colonies
and reproductive status of workers, leaving precise descriptions for
later publication.
Twelve colonies of Amblyopone sp. were collected in the Botani
Garden of Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, from December 1990 to
February 1991. All workers of the colonies were dissected to check
absence or presence of sperm in the spermatheca and ovarian condition
under a binocular microscope. The ovarian condition of
workers was classified into the following 3 developmental classes
according to the presence or absence of mature oocytes or chorionated
eggs and relative size of oocytes to the following nurse cells:
Manuscript received 16 December 1991.
320 Psyche [vo~. 98
class I, all oocytes were smaller than the nurse cells; class 11, one
or more developed oocytes which were bigger than the nurse cells
existed but there were no mature oocytes nor chorionated eggs;
class 111, chorionated eggs and/or mature oocytes were involved.
The composition of the 12 colonies of Amblyopone sp. is shown
in table 1. All colonies showed no morphologically distinct queens
nor queen pupae. Male pupae were contained in one colony collected
in January. The mean number of workers was 89 (k 50 SD).
All workers had a pair of four ovarioles and a spermatheca. Each
colony contained 1 to 18 inseminated workers (Table 2). Most of
them had chorionated eggs or mature oocytes in their ovaries and
dense accumulations of yellow bodies were observed in basal part
of each ovariole. In contrast, all but 6 virgin workers had no
mature oocytes or chorionated eggs. Only 6 workers which occupied
0.5% of the virgin workers dissected had one mature oocyte
in their ovaries, but their yellow bodies were tiny, suggesting that
the egg-laying activity of virgin workers is considerably low.
Many virgin workers had a few developed oocytes (ovary class 11);
however, the shape of these oocytes was abnormally round. This
was observably different from the oocytes of gamergates. Detailed
observations showed that most of the round oocytes in the ovaries
Table 1. Demographic characteristics of the nests of Amblyopone sp. collected in
the field.
Colony Workers Cocoons Larvae Eggs
code W M P
Mean 89(±5 SD)
W, worker pupae; M, male pupae; P, prepupae.
19911 Ito 32,l
Table 2. Reproductive status of workers in 12 colonies of Amblyopone sp.
Colony Ovarian condition Ovarian condition
code mated I I1 111 virgin I I1 111
of virgin workers had already degenerated, suggesting that most
virgin workers are completely sterile. These results suggest that
reproduction is principally performed by gamergates in the
colonies of Amblyopone sp.
In the species belonging to the tribe Amblyoponini, previous
reports show that reproduction is principally performed by morphologically
distinct queens. For instance, colonies of Onychomyrmex
contain an ergatoid queen (Taylor & Brown 1985). It
has been reported that winged queens reproduce in the colonies of
Mystrium Myopopone and Prionopelta (Brown 1960, Moffett
1985, Holldobler & Wilson 1985). In the genus Amblyopone,
colonies of A. pallipes, A. silvestrii and A. pullto have winged
queens who monopolize direct reproduction (Traniello 1982,
Masuko 1986, Gotwald & Levieux 1972). Winged queens have
been also reported in the other Amblyopone species which have
been studied only in taxonomy (Brown 1960, Taylor 1978).
Gamergate reproduction of Amblyopone sp. shown in this study is
a unique social structure in the tribe Amblyoponini. The discovery
of queenless species in this primitive tribe seems to stress that the
disappearance of the queen caste had occurred independently in
various phylogenic lines in the Ponerinae.
Psyche [Vol. 98
Social organization of Amblyopone sp. (reclinata group) was
studied in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. The colonies consisted of
89 workers on average. There were no morphologically distinct
queens, and between 1 to 18 workers mated and reproduced
instead. Most virgin workers were sterile. This is the first report of
queenless reproduction in the primitive tribe Amblyoponini.

Ants have bigger testicles than him.

Wow! You are quite the N.E.R.D! Get it??!!
Impressive...not really

Terilicious said:

Yes, apologies for the spelling mistakes, I, *cough*, typed it out quickly...

ps, I saw the post before the edit. Don't you hate it when you think of a better joke after you've replied!

I wonder what it would feel like to make love to an ant.

Stinky said:

Hold a magnifying glass over them in sunshine. That gets them hot!

I wonder what it would feel like to make love to an ant.

Stinky said:

You should ask your lover...buuuurrrrnnn
Just joking. Hell, I don't even know if you're a dude. That burn only works if you're a dude!!

Terilicious said:

yea, i'm a dude. Tho' my wife is a Dalek, as i already explained in another thread.

So I can't mention ants. Because she thinks i'm comparing her to an Anteater and mocking her sucker that she has for a nose. It's not a straight-forward marriage.