Show marriage flight of ants people living along the river stour at sandwich england were the other day treated to a wonderful sight sud denly the stream the shores and the streets of the town became covered with flying ants that seemed to be dropping 1 ke hall from the clouds the phenomenon was a marriage flight ot ants such as always takes place in the summer the ants thus swarming were young queens and winged males in these marriage flights countless millions of ants take part yet the noise of their tiny gibrat ing wings Is scarcely as loud as the hum of a bee so frail are their dense columns that a little puff of wind will disperse them out of sight comparatively few ct the myriads which come forth from their nests into the air live to enter a nest again practically all the males die lonely and the surviving queens found new communities or entering old nests are at once taken care of by the worl ers and start new colonies in their old nursery |