Anyone familiar ant.We imagined it to be a sort of tiny plodder, conducting their lives only in earthly troubles.And what is our surprise when one day we will find in heaven large winged insects that light clouds rise above the anthill.Who are these ants with wings?Today we look at them more closely.
From whom is formic family
most common in the world are black ants.They can be found in the forest, in the garden and even in urban apartments.The structure looks their families as well as other types of data insects.It includes the most important object of worries and anxieties formic community - the so-called "brood", the adults having sex characteristics, and workers (female, deprived of the possibility to reproduce).
number of individuals living in the same household, may reach 20 000. Workers ants, too, are divided into castes large families: soldiers, nurses, builders and so on. N. A special place in the anthill occupied sexually mature males and females, which is also calledant queens.They - these are the best black ants with wings that are circling above us in the mating flight.
What happens after the flight
Soon after mating happen, young female folds his wings (it is either itself bites them or they break off of the previously planned line) and attempts to create a new family.She has to rely only on itself, because its male die soon, and assistants with these insects are not taken.
Thus, the female ant with wings forgive and find shelter somewhere under a stone.Here, from deferred its eggs and would start a new ant hill.
like black ants dry sandy soil, but can choose to nest and human habitation.There were first, working individuals immediately begin construction of a small ant-hill above the socket with a "brood".
Like "grows" anthill
Ants, barely hatched from the cocoon feeding mother of the family, caring for the eggs and larvae.They are already growing up in a couple of weeks are getters food, soldiers and builders.By the way, how it is fed larva depends who subsequently come to light: the ants with wings (the future founders of families) or working individuals.
interesting and such a "position" of the insect: the heat carrier.Yes, as follows warmed in the sun, the individual returns home!There it gives off heat, paying special attention to the premises with the offspring.
What is so annoying black ants with wings and without
Besides that occupied your country house black ants can hardly be considered pleasant neighbors, gardeners are well aware that this is, perhaps, one of the most unwanted insects in the area.
They bred herds of aphids, including "milked" sweet milk.I do everything to protect their nurses and transferring them to the already delicious shoot on fresh, young, ants contribute to reproduction of parasites and destruction of fruit trees, which are particularly strong love.
But if you move out of the forest of large red ants, females (this must be the ants with wings, ready to separate from the family), they displace the black fellow with a garden plot.And these insects have beneficial in the garden, so let them live and reproduce.
