 Nuptial flight (meaning that virgin queens and males emerge to mate) does not occur in "Nothomyrmecia".Instead, they engage in long-range dispersal (they walk away from the colony for some distance and mate) which presumably begins by late summer or autumn, with the winged adults emerging around March and April, but sometimes a colony may overwinter (a process by which an organism waits out the winter season).These winged adults, born around January, are usually quite young when they begin to mate.