Monday, 11 July 2011

Flying ants, black garden ants - Lasius Niger - & the insects' annual mating ritual


There were a couple of frenetic sexual orgies in my garden this evening whilst I was having an early dinner.  Flying ants; black ant females were emerging in their hundreds for just a few minutes before calm was restored and the males returned underground once the queens had all flown away.

There is a good article on this at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7525028.stm

Meanwhile here are some pic's.


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