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has gloss | eng: Flying Ant Day or Flant Day is an informal term for a day on which queen ants emerge from the nest to begin their nuptial flight. In most species, the male ants also fly alongside them, although they are smaller and less noticeable. The queens fly for a while - sometimes being dispersed very long distances, and sometimes going only a few meters - then mate, and drop to the ground where they lose their wings, and attempt to start a colony . |
lexicalization | eng: Flying Ant Day |
instance of | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers emmet, pismire, ant |
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