Had to let you all know that my local area of Bridgeton Glasgow is thick
with emerging queen ants, i have seen this before but not on this scale!

How do you know they're Queens? (meant to be serious) I expected to see them
starting to fly in August as usual; but they started scuttling around like
mad last week and then they were flying like a black cloud. Are they all
Queens?
G wrote in message ...
Had to let you all know that my local area of Bridgeton Glasgow is thick
with emerging queen ants, i have seen this before but not on this scale!

How do you know they're Queens? (meant to be serious) I expected to see them
starting to fly in August as usual; but they started scuttling around like
mad last week and then they were flying like a black cloud. Are they all
Queens?
G wrote in message ...
Had to let you all know that my local area of Bridgeton Glasgow is thick
with emerging queen ants, i have seen this before but not on this scale!

In article ,
"kathleen syson" writes:
| How do you know they're Queens? (meant to be serious) I expected to see them
| starting to fly in August as usual; but they started scuttling around like
| mad last week and then they were flying like a black cloud. Are they all
| Queens?

No, many of them will be Princes :-)

The forms of ants that fly are the sexual ones. They mate, the
females then attempt to form new nests, and the males die.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
"kathleen syson" writes:
| How do you know they're Queens? (meant to be serious) I expected to see them
| starting to fly in August as usual; but they started scuttling around like
| mad last week and then they were flying like a black cloud. Are they all
| Queens?

No, many of them will be Princes :-)

The forms of ants that fly are the sexual ones. They mate, the
females then attempt to form new nests, and the males die.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.