Flying bug ID.

[White Falcon]

Looks like an ant, but only two body segments.

[waterdog]

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[White Falcon]

No S.W. this is smaller and no yellow. Black body.

[BO-N-ARO]

Run!!!!

[Pstraw]

Don't have a clue, but I've been seeing them here at the house too.

In for confirmation.

[White Falcon]

Buggers are hard to shoot.

[dphillips62]

https://greennature.com/texas-wasps/

[Bill M]

Look like ground hornets to me.

[Pstraw]

Best I can tell, they are some kind of big ant with wings. A hair bigger than a carpenter ant. Not aggressive at all. Usually see them walking more than flying.

[White Falcon]

Here is what they are. Flying ants. Good article.

https://www.thespruce.com/why-do-ants-have-wings-2656364

[Briar Friar]

Here is what they are. Flying ants. Good article.

https://www.thespruce.com/why-do-ant...-wings-2656364

I disagree. Those are hymenopterans but not ants. IMO. The joint structure on the antenna and thoracic structure are definitely different. And legs. And several other things. Some type of wasp.

The long curled antenna make think their habit might be as floral consumers not predatory.

I may be wrong.

[bbbuck]

I agree wasp species.

[Bucknaked]

Don't have a clue, but I've been seeing them here at the house too.

In for confirmation.

Here also! I know that they are not ants but they do have stingers!

[RifleBowPistol]

Those don't look like flying ants, those look like some type of wasp, by the same of the rear end of the thing, looks like it has a stinger on the back end, ants don't.
I have seen flying ants most years that we get rain in the spring. They will come out right after a rain and be all over the place. Then they are only around for a day or two, then they are gone. You will sometimes see the flying ants crawling around a few days after there were a bunch of them flying around. When you see them days after they were flying, you will will notice their wings look like they have been cut off, near the base. I assume other ants bite their wings off, after they have flow to their new home.

What you have, is definitely some type of small wasp or bee. I know we have native bees, the ones I have seen look like small wasps to me, they don't look like the European honey bees, that everybody calls bees.

[RifleBowPistol]

I seem to be wrong. I was looking for a certain type of ant and think I may have found the critters you are asking about.

I was looking for those long skinny black ants with the yellow or orange stripe that live in mesquite trees, and have a bite that hurts way beyond any other ant I have encountered.