For many ‘Flants’ (or flying ants), is a bizarre annual spectacle – a sudden, swarming emergence that can feel like something out of a sci-fi film. One day, the air is clear, the next, it’s filled with thousands of...
The phenomenon, flying ants day (or flant day) occurs for a brief period every summer (July / August) and is not as bizarre as it first seems. These winged ants are in fact the familiar black garden ants (Lasius...