What are Flying Ants?
Flying ants are those individual ants that find new ant colonies. Most of the time, all ants in an ant colony (workers and queens) are females. One or more times per year, a mature ant colony produces flying ants termed sexuals or reproductives because some flying ants are males and some are females. Normally, sexuals produced by colonies in the same area fly at the same time on the same day, improving the odds of a successful mating flight. Males die after mating while females drop to the ground, chew off their wings, and burrow into the ground to create a new colony.
