Find out when and why ants grow wings and swarm. Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and ...

If you've spotted winged insects in your backyard and want to know exactly what you're dealing with, finding out the differences between flying ants and winged termites will come in useful.

He said: "Flying ant day, also known as the nuptial flight and colloquially as 'flant day', is a natural phenomenon in which high numbers of ants with wings, called alates, simultaneously take to ...