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

According to Best Ants UK, Flying Ant Day 2025 is going to be much earlier than usual, with peak activity expected around ...

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

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 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 ...

The black garden queen ant (Lasius niger) ensures colony survival by laying thousands of eggs after a single mating. Her diet, including honeydew, insects, and sometimes her own infected larvae ...

As their name suggests, flying ants are ants that have grown wings. The queens are the larger of the two and can be up to 15mm long. "Winged ants appear at different times around the country and ...