It has been dubbed Flying Ant Day and it wreaks havoc on Brits forced to swat away amorous swarms gathering for their annual ...

While commonly referred to as one specific day, the Royal Society of Biology found that there is no single day that ants fly ...

Once they’ve mated, the role of the male ants is over and they tend to die within a week. Female ants, uh, chew off their ...

Flying Ant Day usually arrives during the summer months and sees flying queens, which are larger, along with smaller male ...

Footage shows dozens of ants taking flight in the UK on June 29. Here’s all you need to know on Flying Ant Day, including why ...

Flying Ant Day is scientifically referred to as nuptial flight, the phenomena where virgin queens mate with males before starting new colonies. For humans this basically means a large quantity of ants ...

Flying ants are known to make an appearance when the weather gets warmer. Flying ants are the reproductive members of an ant ...

Red ants, Myrmica rubra, are among the other common ant species in Britain that grow wings and swarm. However, in the flying ant surveys run by the Royal Society of Biology , nearly 90% of the winged ...

Each fire ant colony gets its start when a winged queen meets up with one or possibly multiple male ants on breeding flights over the tree tops. It’s not a long-term relationship.

Raider ants typically don’t have queens nor wings. This impostor queen had two copies of a mutant supergene. Credit... Trible et al., Current Biology 2023 ...