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Reasons for the large number of flying ants

The reasons for the large number of flying ants are: breeding season, weather conditions and ant nest disturbance.

1, breeding season:

Flying ants usually carry out large-scale mating and breeding activities in specific seasons, looking for new nests and establishing new ant colonies. These seasonal breeding events may lead to a large number of flying ants gathering together.

2. Weather conditions:

Some weather conditions, such as humid environment and warm temperature, are conducive to the reproduction and activities of flying ants. Therefore, the number of flying ants may increase under this weather condition.

3. Nest disturbance:

When the nests of flying ants are disturbed, for example, due to land construction, demolition or natural disasters, flying ants may be forced to leave their original nests, resulting in a large number of them appearing elsewhere.

Distinguish ants

In daily life, people often regard termites as ants, or commonly known as "termites". In fact, termites and ants belong to Isoptera and Hymenoptera in the classification system of Insecta.

Termite is an insect with a history of 250 million years. The wings of winged adults are almost the same length, and the wings are longer than the body; Worker ants and soldier ants are mostly pale white or grayish white, the width at the junction of chest and abdomen changes little, their eyes are degraded, and they are afraid of light, so they engage in covert activities: the food is lignocellulose, and they do not store grain; It belongs to an incomplete metamorphosis insect.

The survival history of ants is only 60 million years; The front wing of its winged adult is larger than the rear wing; Most of them are yellow, brown, black or orange-red, and there are obvious waist joints between chest and abdomen. They are not afraid of light, and most of them are outdoors. Mainly carnivorous or omnivorous, with grain storage habits; It belongs to a completely deformed insect.

From the evolutionary history of insects, termites are an ancient and primitive insect, which is close to cockroaches and can be regarded as one of the ancient ancestors of the insect world, while ants are close to bees.

They still have a long way to go in morphology, evolution, feeding habits and so on. Compared with the age of human existence, termites are the founders of the oldest community life and are called the originator of community life.

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