Every summer, millions of flying ants swarm around the UK. Flying ants — also known as swarmers or alates — are not harmful, however, their constant swarming on 'flying ant day' can be irritating.

The much-maligned "flying ant day", a summer phenomenon in Britain and Ireland, is poised to return as warmer weather persists across the UK. Swarms of winged black garden ants, typically Lasius niger ...

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 ...

It is the giant African harvester ant queens, which are large and coloured red, that are most prized by international ant ...

Tucson’s recent rainy spell wasn’t just exciting for us humans. All that welcome moisture also sent clouds of freshly hatched ants into the air with wings on their backs and one thing on their minds.

A harvester ant typically approaches a cone ant nest and stands upright with her mandibles open (all worker ants are female).

Flying carpenter ants (swarmers) signal an established colony is already active on or near your property — they're not scouts, the nest already exists Carpenter ants don't eat wood; they excavate it, ...