Find out when and why ants grow wings and swarm. Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and ...

However, both species do have wings, as well as six legs and similar coloration with black/brown bodies. Look a little closer though and you’ll start to notice the difference. Flying ants have a ...

Winged ants have elbowed antennae, pinched waists and hind wings smaller than their front wings. Their bodies can be black, brown or a reddish color. While worker ants die after mating ...

Huge swarms of flying ants in the south of England have appeared on a weather forecast map looking like rain. Large numbers of what the Met Office described as "insect clutter" were recorded on ...

The emergence of winged ants during summer often provokes a strong public reaction We're all used to ants sprouting wings and taking to the air during summer, but is there really such a thing as a ...

The phenomenon is part of the mating season and normally lasts just a few days during the hotter part of the summer. The day at Wimbledon has forever been dubbed Flying Ant Day.