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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The invasive ants have so far been spreading naturally through mating flights — when winged ants fly away from the nest to form new colonies in the summertime — but the authors predict that ...
Brachyponera is a genus of ants in ... At least two species are invasive in other parts of the world. ... Queens are similar to workers, but larger and winged. [2 ...
Ants do this when they lose track of their colony, and sometimes will keep walking until death Ants walk around in a never-ending circle known as an “ant death spiral” [Video] Skip to main content