If i have enough ants in captivity without a queen will they select one?

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If i have enough ants in captivity without a queen will they select one?
ok so say i dug up a huge ant nest, and the queen is killed in the process (i tried digging one up and searching the whole thing for the queen and she was nowhere to be found.) without the queens perfume wont the other ants become fertile? and that brings up another problem who would fertilize them? or are there emergency male eggs in every nest?

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