"ant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The winged ants fly off to mate and invade new colonies.
- The insects eaten are mostly small flies, aphids and Hymenoptera such as winged ants.
- The swift feeds in flight on flying insects, including winged ants and termites.
- In a remarkable example of female mimicry, the winged ants produce chemicals that are very similar to those produced by the queens.
- The wingless ants not only do not fight the winged ants, they often try to mate with them.
- If winged ants are seen, there is a colony nearby, so this is an important warning sign.
- Those are the non-functional deaths, as opposed to the dying of, say, the male spider, or the winged ant.
- Alates (winged ants) can be seen on warm days and evenings of July and August.
- This is one of the rare times that they are seen, as workers push the young winged ants out of the nest.
- These alates (winged reproductive ants) are completely black (with some variations between species), compared to the orange-coloured workers.
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