My Ant Farms (Large photo warning!)

One thing I have often wondered about starting a colony is if it would be possible to just catch one of the "flying ants" when they swarm. I dont know about elsewhere but in the UK in the middle of summer you get evenings when there are just millions of flying ants. Lots of people think they are a separate independent species but as I understand it they are the new queens and males from established nests flying up to mate then the queens return to earth to establish new nests. If that is the case then surely it would be possible to start a colony by catching one of the newly landed queens (can be identified because they shed their wings)?