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"Flying ant day" is an informal term for the day on which future queen ants emerge from the nest to begin their nuptial flight, [6] although citizen science based research has demonstrated that nuptials flights are not particularly spatially or temporally synchronised.
Heat makes flying easier and freshly fallen rain makes the ground softer for mated queens to dig new nests," Stolarski said. The good weather on Monday caused the ants to take off for the flight.
Black garden ant with the mandibles of an unindentified creature.. The black garden ant (Lasius niger), also known as the common black ant, is a formicine ant, the type species of the subgenus Lasius, which is found across Europe and in some parts of North America, South America, Asia and Australasia.
Flying ants have a pinched, small waist; whereas termites have a thick waist. The antennas on flying ants are elbowed, meaning they come out to the side and then they bend upwards. Termite ...
While other black ants such as Lasius niger found their own nest, a post-nuptial queen of Lasius fuliginosus cannot found her own nest, but establishes a nest through social parasitism in another species of the same genus – Lasius umbratus, a rare yellow ant with an underground habit (unlike the common yellow ant Lasius flavus which makes ...
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Phorid flies may represent a hopeful means of controlling fire ant populations in the southern United States, where some species of fire ants were accidentally introduced in the 1930s. The genus Pseudacteon, or ant-decapitating flies, of which 110 species have been documented, is a parasitoid of ants.
The frenzy of insects prevented the school from serving lunch.