Is there an Antlion queen?

[Captain Pentium]

There's larvae, workers, and guards and the name "ant" leads me to think that they're based around a queen. Is there any reference to one in the story somewhere?

[Turambar]

Are you blind? I am not gonna answer because if you know about larvae you should know about the queens however I will tell you that VALVe though about making a King.

[Train]

there's an antlion guardian, based on the cut antlion king.

[9seed]

There was a cut antlion king in the beta.
Although, considering the relation to vorts, antlions may reproduce in a different way...

[Ghidrah1]

That's a good question! I don't ever remember ant queen ever being mentioned in any of the HL2 games. The vorts do give a small bit of info on their farming practices regarding the ALs and larvae use in Ep2.

Vorts have no fear of ALs or spitters and vorthandle them with ease, other than that there is no history involving the 2 species.

Did the vorts attain their (electrostatic?) and spatial transportation abilities prior to or after their involvement with the AL larvae?

Seems to me there would be no need of guardians if ALs were a Xen genetic creation solely for the larvae juice?

If so how would/did they learn of the juice properties?

Even though they're called ant lions, have considerable physical similarities with terrestrial ants and share breeding/care practices with ants and bees it's safer to suggest they're -0- relation.

In any case, evolution or genetic manipulation requires dna and rna which is either organically produced and possibly manipulated or molecularly produced and organised

[Half life Expert]

No known queen. The Vorts don't mention one in Episode Two. Perhaps the Guardian is a sort of de facto queen, but the origins of the base larva (the stuff the Vort stole to save Alyx) are not known.