“Flying ant day” might sound like the invention of a particularly deranged marketing department but, alas, it is an all too real summer phenomenon in Britain and Ireland. Every year, swarms of winged ...

Flying ants may seem more formidable than their tiny ant counterparts. Interestingly, though, flying ants—also known as swarmers or alates—aren’t actually a different variety of ant at all. They’re ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Every summer, millions of flying ants take to the skies to mate in the air and establish new colonies. It has been dubbed Flying Ant Day and it wreaks havoc on Brits forced to swat away amorous swarms ...

The UK will soon be hit with Flying Ant Day, but what actually is it and when does it take place? Flying ants, which are larger queens and males, are typically lured out of their nests by humid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo (Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo) Wildlife experts in North Wales have warned that swarms of flying ...

A swarm of flying ants a mile long was caught on a weather radar on the south coast – and more could be seen in the coming days. The Met Office picked up the ants on a rain radar on Friday as people ...

There are over 12,000 species of ants. Most are seen as pests that invade homes and take over pantries in their search for food. The majority of these ants are found marching on the floor, up walls, ...

An ant’s normal mode of locomotion is crawling. However, at certain times of the year, something remarkable happens. At certain times, some ants in the colony develop wings, leave the nest, and fly.