Mycocepurus smithii

This title is the name of an ant. There was an article in the bbc
about a species of ants which (who?) are female only. They don't reproduce, per se, but clone. The queens clone themselves and tend to a special garden of fungus, which develops asexually. Dr Himler, who lead the research, was originally interest in their ability to cultivate crops because they can grow "a greater number of crops than other ant species", she explained.

Since the fungus crop reproduces asexually, Dr Himler thinks it might give the ants some kind of advantage "not to operate under the usual constraints of sexual reproduction".

This lead came from one of "the blogs that get read", iblamepatriarchy.