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Meaning of "nuptial flight"

nuptial flight - In entomology, a nuptial flight refers to the coordinated aerial dispersal of reproductive individuals (e.g., queen ants, termites) from a colony for mating purposes. During this phase, winged males and females participate in a synchronized flight to find partners from different colonies, ensuring genetic diversity and the establishment of new colonies

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nuptial flight
Nuptial flight time varies in each species.
The day of nuptial flight.
Their entire destiny depends on the ensuing nuptial flight.
This nuptial flight and the carrion.
This is called nuptial flight.
Nuptial flight occurs in warm weather at any time of the year.
This is known as nuptial flight.
Nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of most ant species.
Pair formation occurs after the reproductive nuptial flight.
Nuptial flight occurs in summer and nests can hold several thousand individuals.
They select the candidates for the nuptial flight.
The nuptial flight and the nest digging are high intensity activity which consume body reserves.
It was their nuptial flight.
Winged ants swarming from the nest in preparation for the nuptial flight.
Their nuptial flight occurs during late September to late November depending on the climate.

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Winged male weaver ants preparing for their nuptial flight.
The nuptial flight of the Ants.
Their flyers did not lose their wings after the nuptial flight.
Nuptial flight begins in spring, with males mating with one or two females.
They die anything from a few hours to a couple of days after the nuptial flight.
Colonies have a nuptial flight around the beginning of September, near labour day.
In fact, nearly all of these die after the nuptial flight.
Nuptial flight of I . occidentale reproductives have been observed throughout May.
When conditions are warm and humid, winged males and females participate in a nuptial flight.
A honey bee queen ideally mates with about a dozen drones ( males ) in her nuptial flight.
It takes place naturally, on the spot, via the nuptial flight.
Reproductive forms have 4 long wings, of similar shape, shed after the nuptial flight.

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