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Index of Subjects Oh yeah I remember Flying Ant day in the Sixties... Yuck! A few more in the seventies but nothing like the sixties. I know carpenter ants have large winged ants in their group that go out in search of a new home. A couple of summers ago there was an amazing 'hatching' of a flying insect that turned the surface of the Arm a reddish brown. (That's different from the 'normal' colours of the Arm. Ha!) Ann Sent from my iPhone On 2010-08-13, at 9:32 PM, nhungjohn <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Sounds like a joke, to me. > > I remember irruptions of flying ants on hot August days in the '50's and '60's, and think flying reproductives are how ant species establish new colonies > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Doull" <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca> > To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 8:54 PM > Subject: [NatureNS] Flying ants > > >> Read the comments in Chronicle Herald in Internet below. It was in response >> of flying ants in Halifax. Any truth in it? >> >> "Flying ants are not natural species to Nova Scotia. They were introduced by >> local sport ant hunters who determined the native, ground-walking Nova >> Scotia ants were too easy to catch in the 1970s. They have been known to >> breed with the Northern wild ant, thus creating a hybrid-type that appears >> unafraid of humans and can act unpredictably" >
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