In the Quran, worker ants are referred to as females, and it is stated that they lack wings. Skeptics argue that the Quran was mistaken, suggesting that worker ants are both males and females. However, recent scientific discoveries confirm that worker ants are indeed all females and are wingless.

In many ant species, male ants have wings, but the worker ants, which are responsible for foraging and caring for the colony, are all females and do not possess wings. Some male ants are wingless, but these wingless males do not participate in tasks like foraging outside the nest. The wingless males remain inside the colony, while the females venture out to gather food and care for the young. The Quran in Surah An-Naml (27:18) describes an interaction between Solomon's army and a colony of ants:

The word "said" in Arabic, "Qalat" (قالت), is specifically used for females, implying that the Quran correctly identifies the ant as a female. Since the ant did not have wings, the only option for it was to hide in its home. This matches the behavior of wingless, foraging female ants, which do not fly.

1400 years ago, the concept that worker ants are all females and wingless would have been unknown to the general public. How could an illiterate man in the 7th century have known this? The Quran's accurate portrayal of ants, as scientifically verified today, is a clear indication of divine knowledge evidenced in the smallest of details.