Ants Winging It

The usually quiet little colony of ants under the Hut came alive, a few days ago, when hundreds of appeared wearing wings and began flying away. For a while it seemed like a swarm had arrived, only it was not Spring and they had very dark colouring. Of further interest was the hundreds of normal ants (without wings) escorting them out and seeing them off. Those winged ones climbed up stumps, or at least to the top of rocks, for a better take off, and their escorts followed to give them encouragement (or to make sure they did not pike out). Within ten minutes it was all over, probably for another year for that colony, and soon there was hardly an ant in sight.