Flying Ants

Having disturbed an ant's nest in the GH today and noticed that some were winged ants, I realised that I knew very little about an ant's lifecycle.

Here's something that the Duckduck found - https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-why-...light.html

Fascinating. 

That’s a very interesting read. Thanks veggie. I didn’t know lots of that .

Same - very interesting read! We have lots of ants here, and I don't mind them as long as they stay out of my house, and out of my garden beds. So far so good

All I know is that a floating representation of a flying ant catches decent  trout at this time of year. I luurve dry fly fishing to a rise!

An interesting read. TBH all I knew about ants was they bite me

I have red ants in the front lawn. When I first moved here, it was new build and the turf was level with the slab path. Now after forty plus years, in places along the edge of the path, the turf is two to three inches above the level of the path, purely from red ants shifting the soil around as they seek to warm their eggs in the summer sun, and I constantly hit little new built hummocks elsewhere when I mow. They are a pain in more ways than one.

I have tiny little yellow ants. It stings when they bite! Are they likely to eat my plants? I just saw some next to the cucumbers I planted out today.

Tiny yellow ants are meadow ants. They mostly stay underground, and feed on the honeydew of root aphids, which they farm. I don't know much about root aphids, but I guess they can't be good in the garden.

We've got lots of ants they usually stay in the garden but a couple of weeks back they got in the kitchen took a few days to get rid of them not nice at all.

Its Flying Ant day here - about 5 weeks later than last year!