Showing posts with label ants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ants. Show all posts

3 Aug 2019

Flying ants - NOT amateur radio

Black garden ant (Lasius niger). The queens are 
much larger than the worker ants. 
© JvL via Flickr (licensed under CC BY 2.0)
A few years ago our bedroom was inundated with flying ants. Since then we have seen just a few in the house. On a walk around the village today we saw quite a few and there was one in the lounge a few minutes ago. This is the first time I have seen these this year.

See https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-why-winged-ants-swarm-nuptial-flight.html

23 Jul 2016

More hot sun and flying ants - NOT amateur radio

For about a week now we have had better summer weather in this part of the UK. Temperatures have been in the mid 20s to low 30s (deg C) all week. We had one big storm which dropped humidity, but yesterday and today are hot.
Australian flying ants - but UK ones look similar
It is also "flying ant season". Whilst I was out yesterday, we had hundreds of flying ants in our bedroom. I gather these larger, flying ants are queens. They come out on mass to mate. It is usually just one day, then they are gone. The hot weather has not helped.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuptial_flight