https://dealate.app/blog Writing about ant nuptial flights: when they happen, what triggers them, and what the research actually says. en https://dealate.app/blog/how-to-tell-a-queen-from-a-large-worker https://dealate.app/blog/how-to-tell-a-queen-from-a-large-worker Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A queen isn't always the biggest ant you'll spot. Thorax shape, wing scars and what to photograph, so size alone doesn't fool you. https://dealate.app/blog/why-one-colony-flies-twice-in-a-summer https://dealate.app/blog/why-one-colony-flies-twice-in-a-summer Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A missed flight isn't always a missed species. The same nest can send up a second batch of queens weeks after the first, in a good year. https://dealate.app/blog/fully-claustral-or-not https://dealate.app/blog/fully-claustral-or-not Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Whether you feed a founding queen depends on which of three strategies her species uses. Most seal themselves in and live on flight muscle alone. https://dealate.app/blog/why-the-forecast-and-your-garden-disagree https://dealate.app/blog/why-the-forecast-and-your-garden-disagree Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A forecast describes a box of air miles across. A nuptial flight happens against one warm wall, and the shower that stops it can be narrower than that. https://dealate.app/blog/the-second-wave-british-species-still-to-fly https://dealate.app/blog/the-second-wave-british-species-still-to-fly Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT July belongs to the black garden ant, but the season isn't over: red ants, parasitic yellow Lasius, a thief ant, and one that waits for October. https://dealate.app/blog/you-caught-a-queen-now-what https://dealate.app/blog/you-caught-a-queen-now-what Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT She's in a takeaway tub on your counter and the internet has a thousand opinions. What matters in the first few days, and why the hard part is waiting. https://dealate.app/blog/how-high-do-flying-ants-go https://dealate.app/blog/how-high-do-flying-ants-go Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A drone with a sticky trap finally measured it, flown through a live swarm. The numbers are lower than expected, and the surprise is who flies highest. https://dealate.app/blog/why-your-neighbours-ants-flew-and-yours-didnt https://dealate.app/blog/why-your-neighbours-ants-flew-and-yours-didnt Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Two gardens, same street, same weather, only one swarms. What separates them is mostly soil temperature and colony age, and both vary over metres. https://dealate.app/blog/flying-ant-day-2026-what-actually-happened https://dealate.app/blog/flying-ant-day-2026-what-actually-happened Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Britain's 2026 predictions ran 7 July to 2 August. The ants started on 21 June and hit Met Office radar by the 8th. A season that refused to be a day. https://dealate.app/blog/ants-mating-a-day-earlier-every-decade https://dealate.app/blog/ants-mating-a-day-earlier-every-decade Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A century of museum specimens shows North American ants flying to mate earlier as the climate warms. What Helms (2022) found, and why it matters. https://dealate.app/blog/how-to-find-a-queen-ant-after-a-flight https://dealate.app/blog/how-to-find-a-queen-ant-after-a-flight Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Once a swarm is over, the mated queens are on the ground, not in the air. Where they land, how to tell a queen from a worker, and why few survive. https://dealate.app/blog/what-is-a-nuptial-flight https://dealate.app/blog/what-is-a-nuptial-flight Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The winged ants on a warm summer evening are a colony reproducing. What a nuptial flight is, why they all go at once, and what happens after landing. https://dealate.app/blog/ant-flight-timetable https://dealate.app/blog/ant-flight-timetable Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Nuptial flights aren't clustered at midday. Some genera go up at first light, one flies at three in the morning, one does both ends of the day. https://dealate.app/blog/ants-dont-read-the-barometer https://dealate.app/blog/ants-dont-read-the-barometer Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Everyone knows ants swarm when pressure drops. In the largest UK flying-ant study ever done, pressure had no measurable effect. Temperature and wind did. https://dealate.app/blog/flying-ants-in-your-house https://dealate.app/blog/flying-ants-in-your-house Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Winged ants indoors in July aren't an infestation. It's a nuptial flight, they're harmless, and they'll be gone by evening.