nuptial flight

You came out like an ant for your nuptial flight.

Nuptial flight occurs in warm weather at any time of the year.

They also spread as the queens seek new homes after their mysterious nuptial flights.

Before her nuptial flight a queen takes to the air experimentally to gain strength and experience.

In early to mid autumn, they leave the nest and mate during "nuptial flights".

A nuptial flight takes place, mating occurs and they shed their wings.

During their nuptial flight the queens mate with several males, who die shortly after.

Young queens and males stay in their parent colony until conditions are right for the nuptial flight.

No nuptial flights have been witnessed yet from this species where it is living in North America.

Love bugs form linked pairs during their nuptial flights.

And then the rapture of the nuptial flight.

Every evening a nuptial flight, and with a practiced male, not a callow drone.

It is Maeterlinck's account of the nuptial flight of the queen.

The males and queens rise up in a nuptial flight and mate on the wing.

Nuptial flights take place in June, although they may be postponed during colder years to July.

She had made her nuptial flight, and Mnementh had claimed her.

Nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of most ant, termite and some bee species.

The virgin queen takes one or several nuptial flights and once she is established starts laying eggs in the hive.

During mid-summer these ants perform their nuptial flights.

She loved a drone who had lost his wings in a storm and could not ascend in the nuptial flight.

Mating flight is otherwise known as 'nuptial flight'.

More than one nuptial flight each year could increase the likelihood of successful invasion of new colonies by A. ameliae.