The presence of wings indicates an ant’s fertility—ants with wings are either queens or the drones whose job it is to mate with them ... defy the norm and do not have permanent homes.

They aren't interested in people or picnics - they are just looking for a mate. The large winged females and the smaller winged males are often seen flying joined together. This is known as the ...

“Carpenter ants don’t eat wood, like termites do,” says Eric Benson ... In late winter to early spring, carpenter ants swarm ...

‘Don’t go, Ant, mate,’ said the Grasshopper. ‘Stick around. Pass the day with me.’ ‘Sorry.’ said the Ant. ‘Like I said, I got stuff to do.’ The Ant dragged his ear of corn and ...

As unbelievable as it sounds, in Brazil the price for roasted ants was officially regulated until 1959. Whatever you do, these little critters will ... pouch when she leaves her nest to mate. With ...

Unlike any monsters they encountered beforehand, the Chimera Ants challenged Gon, Killua, and their fellow hunters in ways ...

If aliens ever do land on Earth, don’t get all huffy if their greeting turns out to be: "Take me to your ant." That ant might ... They sprout wings and fly off to mate, and the fertilized ...

"Ants do so many different jobs in the ecosystem that ... Male ants have short lives and only one task: to mate with the queen. To communicate in their huge colonies, ants constantly touch each ...

(The queen has to be flying to mate.) We "tied" the queen in front ... As my next project, I'd love to do a film about ants, to enter their fascinating world. In cinematographic terms, this ...

Once they find each other and mate, the wasps go their separate ... to squish a velvet ant than a honeybee. Velvet ants' bodies are also rounded, meaning that attempted bites and stings tend not to do ...

I have seen ants running around over greenfly, do they eat them? No, ants protect greenfly from ... as day length shortens and temperatures fall in autumn, they mate and produce eggs that will ...