But the ovaries of worker ants are in some cases sufficiently developed for the production of eggs, which may give rise parthenogenetically to male, queen or worker offspring.
The Coccidae can, and mainly do, breed asexually (parthenogenetically).
The fertility of the parthenogenetically produced insects would also diminish after a certain number of generations had been produced.
Here it undergoes its fifth and last moult, and appears as a winged female, capable of reproducing parthenogenetically.
They lay their parthenogenetically produced eggs in the angles of the veins of the leaves, in the buds, or, if the season is already far advanced, in the bark.