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Earlier today, a winged ant landed on my windshield as I was driving. After it landed, it started pulling off it's wings (4 of them). Is this a normal behavior in ants, pulling their wings off?
gpt
That was a queen ant who had been fertilized and was looking for a place to dig her nest. They pull the wings off as soon as they land, because they are not going to use them again. The flight muscles are used for energy while the queen is waiting for her first brood to hatch.

Winged ants are either queens or male ants. Queens don't keep their wings, and male ants die after mating is over, so there are no ants that fly merely as a form of locomotion.