Flying ant day

This afternoon our remaining visitors went off to the beach again and I was enjoying the sunshine on the patio when I suddenly became aware of hundreds of winged ants appearing from the stones beside my chair and scurrying around madly. 

It wasn’t long before they all started to fly away and the remaining non winged ants all disappeared again under the stones. Quite a fascinating stage in the ant life cycle when they take off to find a mate on a hot summer day like today.