Queen ants leave colony

Queen ants leave the colony to start new colonies.

Date: 13-07-2007
Netherlands

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Queenants
• ants
• colonie
• leave
• flyingants
• vliegende
• mieren
• koninginnen

[xerke]

wow nice

was it a colony of red or black ants??

what sort of ants??

[Boeff82]

Red Ants, Lasius Flavus

Made this video with my old camera so the quality isn't so good :P

[smartbrick]

HAHAHA! THOSE ARE THE MALES!

[Boeff82]

I'm sorry

But you are wrong

The males are smaller

there are some of them also walking around

but most of them where queens

[Arno18Production]

@Boeff82

boef je hebt ze alebij gefilmt want die zitten rond de koninginne

[Boeff82]

@Arno18Production ja klopt, alleen willen sommige mensen niet luisteren ;)

[BigDotMedia]

These are alate females. They still have their wings. They come out at periods in the year and fly up into the air where they mate with a male (which is half the size with wings), once she males she will fly off and dig a hole and rip her wings off. Queens have no use for wings. All ants are females expect the small ants with wings, they are males. And they die soon after mating. That's not much fun. :(

[kirynthebishop]

Drones ARE males... get info right before posting please :P

[bananian]

burn it!

[Evilpancake102]

i want a social parasite

[TheReaperInLT]

whos ants with wings is queens ho flys away haved mated so they flyed off to create new nest and start new colony

[MASTACHIEFrul3s]

how can you tell which one will be the queen

[TheWater911]

It is just all the males and females mating. They shed their wings a while later.

[BukuHaze420]

I back onto a golf course and have major ant issues, every few years they will flood my basement

all have wings, atleast 100,000 ants gather for a few hours its fucking discusting

[runesick]

very lucky