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  2. Nuptial flight - Wikipedia

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    The young mated queens land and, in the case of most ants and all termites, remove their wings. They then attempt to found a new colony. The details of this vary from species to species, but typically involve the excavation of the colony's first chamber and the subsequent laying of eggs.

  3. Ant - Wikipedia

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    The female worker ants do not have wings and reproductive females lose their wings after their mating flights in order to begin their colonies. Therefore, unlike their wasp ancestors, most ants travel by walking. Some species are capable of leaping.

  4. Wingless insect - Wikipedia

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    Some have reduced wings that are not useful for flying. Some develop wings but shed them after they are no longer useful. Other groups of insects may have castes with wings and castes without, such as ants. Ants have alate queens and males during the mating season and wingless workers, which allows for smaller workers and more populous colonies ...

  5. Tetramorium immigrans - Wikipedia

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    The pavement ant is dark brown to blackish, and 2.5–4 millimeters (0.10–0.16 in) long. A colony is composed of workers, alates, and a queen. Workers do have a small stinger, which can cause mild discomfort in humans but is essentially harmless. Alates, or new queen ants and drones, have wings, and are at least twice as large as the workers ...

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

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    Termites have four wings that are the same size, translucent and stacked on top of each other. Flying ants have a pinched, small waist; whereas termites have a thick waist.

  7. Army ant - Wikipedia

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    Colonies of real army ants always have only one queen, while some other ant species can have several queens. The queen is dichthadiigyne (a blind ant with large gaster) but may sometimes possess vestigial eyes. [5] The queens of army ants are unique in that they do not have wings, have an enlarged gaster size and an extended cylindrical abdomen ...

  8. Pharaoh ant - Wikipedia

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    Males are about 3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 in) long, black, winged (but do not fly). Queens are dark red and 3.6–5.0 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 16 in) long. They initially have wings that are lost soon after mating, but do not fly. [7]

  9. Aptery - Wikipedia

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    Aptery is the anatomical condition of an animal completely lacking any kind of wings. An animal with this condition is said to be apterous. Most animal species belong to and are phylogenetic descendants of apterous taxa. These groups are said to be primarily apterous. Insects that are primarily apterous belong to the subclass Apterygota.