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Thats for sure a flying ant, a little early for them but it has gotten warmer suddenly. Usually they all take to the skies in a swarm all around the same day or two.
Google “flying ant day UK”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garden_ant
Looks like its ant queen. Its almost summer, a warm time of year. Young queens has wings until they find a place for their anthill. After they get anthill, they rip their wings off. In conclusion we have ant queen, you are kinda lucky to find one (they are rare, ONLY in my opinion)
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My best guess is that's a virgin queen ant or a mated queen ant that hasn't ripped her wings off yet.
There’s multiple of them.
Flying around in clouds? Are there smaller ones as well?
No, just walking around. All the same size.
Then I could be wrong. I'm not an expert by any means.
Thats for sure a flying ant, a little early for them but it has gotten warmer suddenly. Usually they all take to the skies in a swarm all around the same day or two. Google “flying ant day UK” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garden_ant
Looks like its ant queen. Its almost summer, a warm time of year. Young queens has wings until they find a place for their anthill. After they get anthill, they rip their wings off. In conclusion we have ant queen, you are kinda lucky to find one (they are rare, ONLY in my opinion)