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Periodically, swarms of the winged sexuals (known as alates) depart the nest in great nuptial flights.[1]
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An ant colony, also called an ant mansion, is the basic unit around which ants organize their lifecycle.[citation needed] Ant colonies are eusocial, and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera, though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution.[citation needed] The typical colony consists of one or more egg-laying queens, a large number of sterile females (workers, soldiers) and, seasonally, a large number of winged sexual males and females. In order to establish new colonies, ants undertake nuptial flights that occur at species-characteristic times of the day.[2] Swarms of the winged sexuals (known as alates) depart the nest in search of other nests[3]. The males die shortly thereafter, along with most of the females.[citation needed] A small percentage of the females survive to initiate new nests.
- ^ Wilson, E. O. "The Organization of a Nuptial Flight of the Ant Pheidole Sttarches Wheeler". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 64 (2): 46–50. doi:10.1155/1957/68319. ISSN 0033-2615.
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- ^ Wilson, E. O. "The Organization of a Nuptial Flight of the Ant Pheidole Sttarches Wheeler". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 64 (2): 46–50. doi:10.1155/1957/68319. ISSN 0033-2615.
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