Is Queen Chrysalis Sexual Or Asexual?

[Midnight Seashell 206]

Chrysalis is technically the bug queen of the changelings and therefore gives birth to all of them but we've never seen or heard of the king of the changelings so how does Chrysalis reproduce?

[Leere 8,291]

Simple, she lay eggs like several other bugs

[ARagY 1,152]

Sexual, like any bug. She lays eggs.

[Jammo 986]

Sexually predatory I assumed.

 

She's aromatic though.  I can't see her doing the thing for emotional bonding.  At least reciprocally.

Edited June 13, 2016 by Jammo

[Singe 2,111]

Notice how there are more female pony characters than males.

[Rainbow Dash 1,472]

I'm super glad she's not real. Imagine having to go to a forest to study her for an article in a science magazine. You'd have to wear a bunch of brown pants on that trip.

 

If we know that she is asexual then does that mean she's more like bees, or what? Cause any egg laying insect needs a male to fertilise an egg. I know there are like 5 bug species out there that are asexual but most of them are bees and hornets.

[Stormlight 1,371]

I would say Sexual. What I thought of first with Queen Chrysalis and her changeling army is how similar bees are. The Queen Bee will repopulate with one of the male bees and produce eggs.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

I would ask FlufflPuff about that. 

 

 

In all seriousness I'd say sexual just cause of the whole Queen of a Hive thing. 

[TheSupremeLeaderOfChaos 1,206]

Sexually predatory I assumed.

 

She's aromatic though.  I can't see her doing the thing for emotional bonding.  At least reciprocally.

 

Yeah I think this is accurate. She probably reproduces in the same way that bees and ants do, so sexually, like insects, but with no emotional attachment. Especially since they eat love? I think a romantic relationship would be a bit? odd?

[Justin_Case001 4,889]

Chrysalis is technically the bug queen of the changelings and therefore gives birth to all of them

Hmm.  I can't help but find this assumption to be a bit suspect.  It is axiomatic that she gives birth to all changelings because she's the queen?  I say no.  She may simply be a ruler, like any other royal figurehead, but that doesn't necessarily mean she lays millions of eggs.  It's true that they are depicted as insect-like, but doesn't really mean they're insects.  We can't say for certain that they reproduce like insects.  They may well reproduce like mammals.  I would say that the evidence seems to suggest it's more like a bee colony, but I'm just saying that we can't know for sure.

[cider float 2,538]

How does that make her asexual? Hive insects usually have a queen but no king.