At about 6.30pm the main nest in the front garden had their second mating flight (and the ants just outside the gate).
But of course many of them do not survive the mating flight as they face predators in the air...
and on the ground.
Some become trapped in spider webs...
...or meet their end in other ways, this one drowned in the bird bath.
At 7.15pm I noticed that the yellow field ants that live underneath the bird bath also started their (first) mating flight.
This is the first time I have seen the yellow ant mating flight.
1 comment:
Sweet pics, glad you shared em. Reminded me of the yellow ant mating flights I saw as a kid.
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