black garden ant Lasius niger emerging from nest climbing blades of grass leaves to take off on nuptial flight aided by workers
Black garden ant Lasius niger and the biggest one night stand in the UK The seasonal appearance of flying ants occurs when they embark on their "nuptial" or "mating" flight, in the first step to founding a new colony, on landing at a subtable site they will shed the wings after mating. The females lose their wings and go in search of somewhere to hibernate until they lay eggs and set up a new colony and rear a new nest, the kings all die, job done.
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Location: Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Photo credit: © Yon Marsh Natural History / Alamy / Afripics
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