It sounds like the plot of a cheesy 1950s sci-fi movie: Creatures that don’t need males to procreate. Females birth hundreds of live babies every 5 to 7 days, all of which are exact DNA clones.
Some of those can then mutate, or select for resistance to chemical weapons that control them, and their progeny will be resistant duplicates.
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