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  2. Swarm behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Swarming serves multiple purposes, including the facilitation of mating by attracting females to approach the swarm, a phenomenon known as lek mating. Such cloud-like swarms often form in early evening when the sun is getting low, at the tip of a bush, on a hilltop, over a pool of water, or even sometimes above a person.

  3. Termites or flying ants? How to tell the difference & keep ...

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    According to Yates-Astro Termite and Pest Control in Georgia: “Flying ants are attracted to light and are often seen flying around lights at night. Termites, on the other hand, are not attracted ...

  4. Phrynomantis microps - Wikipedia

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    It is postured that their translucent bodies, when close to the surface, use the entering light to camouflage from predators. [7] When it is dark any light will make them shine rather than melt into the surrounding water, which would explain why the tadpoles move into deeper water when night arrives, and never swarm at night. [2]

  5. Eciton - Wikipedia

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    Eciton army ants have a bi-phasic lifestyle in which they alternate between a nomadic phase and a statary phase. In the statary phase, which lasts about three weeks, the ants remain in the same location every night. They arrange their own living bodies into a nest, protecting the queen and her eggs in the middle.

  6. Nuptial flight - Wikipedia

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    Meat ant nest swarming Winged ants in Finland. Nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of most ant, termite, and some bee species. [1] It is also observed in some fly species, such as Rhamphomyia longicauda.

  7. Swarm of flying ants takes over Pennsylvania cafeteria and ...

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    A high school in Pennsylvania was dismissed early after a swarm of flying ants took over the cafeteria, school staff said. Lower Dauphin High School in Hummelstown sent students home at 10:30 a.m ...

  8. Ant - Wikipedia

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    Myrmecophilous (ant-loving) caterpillars of the butterfly family Lycaenidae (e.g., blues, coppers, or hairstreaks) are herded by the ants, led to feeding areas in the daytime, and brought inside the ants' nest at night. The caterpillars have a gland which secretes honeydew when the ants massage them.

  9. A swarm of flying ants descended on Boston on Monday ... - AOL

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    After mating in the flight, female ants land to form new colonies, but the male ants are left behind to die. A swarm of flying ants descended on Boston on Monday. Here's what it was