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Periodically, swarms of the winged sexuals (known as alates) depart the nest in great nuptial flights.

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An ant colony, also called an ant mansion, is the basic unit around which ants organize their lifecycle.^{[citation needed]} Ant colonies are eusocial, and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera, though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution.^{[citation needed]} The typical colony consists of one or more egg-laying queens, a large number of sterile females (workers, soldiers) and, seasonally, a large number of winged sexual males and females. In order to establish new colonies, ants undertake nuptial flights that occur at species-characteristic times of the day. Swarms of the winged sexuals (known as alates) depart the nest in search of other nests. The males die shortly thereafter, along with most of the females.^{[citation needed]} A small percentage of the females survive to initiate new nests.