When the winged males (drones) and virgin queens (princesses) emerge from the nest, they scatter to maximise the chance of mating between different colonies and reduce inbreeding. An ant colony can ...

A flying ant is essentially a regular ant that’s sprouted ... Fluttering off post-coital in search of a suitable nesting site ...

it's all over for the smaller male ants who will fall to the ground and die, while the new, now fertile, queen loses her wings and buries herself underground to form a new nest. “Flying ants may ...