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  2. Nuptial flight - Wikipedia

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    Male and female yellow meadow ants preparing for their nuptial flight. A mature ant colony seasonally produces winged virgin queens and males, called alates. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. Fertilized eggs usually develop into wingless, sterile workers, but may develop into virgin queens if the larvae receive special attention.

  3. Red harvester ant - Wikipedia

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    They seek food, and mark their path as they return to the mound to alert the worker ants. The worker ants follow the scent trail and collect the food. Other worker ants clean, extend, and generally tend to the mound, the queen, and the brood. All the ants in the colonies are females apart from the winged males produced in the breeding season.

  4. Flying ants or termites may be invading your KY home ... - AOL

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    Flying ants have pinched waists and wings of unequal length. Their antennae are bent or elbowed in appearance. An image of a winged ant and termite. 2. What to look for in and around your home.

  5. Alate - Wikipedia

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    In entomology, "alate" usually refers to the winged form of a social insect, especially ants [2]: 209 or termites, [3] though it can also be applied to aphids [4] and some thrips. [5] Alate females are referred to as gynes, and are typically those destined to become queens. [6] A "dealate" is an adult insect that shed or lost its wings ...

  6. Termites or flying ants? How to tell the difference & keep ...

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    Flying ants have wings that are longer in the front and shorter in the back. Termites have four wings that are the same size, translucent and stacked on top of each other. Flying ants have a ...

  7. Ant - Wikipedia

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    Winged male ants, called drones (termed "aner" in old literature [49]), emerge from pupae along with the usually winged breeding females. Some species, such as army ants, have wingless queens. Larvae and pupae need to be kept at fairly constant temperatures to ensure proper development, and so often are moved around among the various brood ...

  8. List of ants of Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Ants that are commonly called pests are red imported fire ants, acrobat ants, big-headed ants, carpenter ants, cornfield ants, harvester ants, larger yellow ant, little black ants, mound ants, spinewaisted ants, and thief ants. [7] It is known that these pest species can survive through Kansas' less harsh winters. [8]

  9. Pterygota - Wikipedia

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    'winged') is a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and groups who lost them secondarily. [3] Pterygota group comprises 99.9% of all insects. [4] The orders not included are the Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) and the Zygentoma (silverfishes and firebrats), two primitively wingless insect orders. Unlike Archaeognatha and ...