LFA Flight distance for new colonies.

[Wao nahele kane]

I've seen photos of both reproductive male and female lfa with wings. It claimed they were used during mating flights only. Workers don't grow wings. I didn't save the link but it was from a research paper. If I run across it again I'll post it here. I could only find one article that addressed a method in which average flight distance could be calculated but it was used on a different type of ant. In any case, "Not far" is probably far enough to wreak havoc on an island.

"According to the Hawaii Ant Lab they don't fly !"
According to the research paper I read not from Hawaii they do fly during mating time BUT and a big BUT, they wont if it's windy... I'll have to dig back up that document. IT would appear there may be some conflicting information that could be due to the environmental conditions of the observation regions.