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Black garden ant with the mandibles of an unindentified creature. The black garden ant ( Lasius niger ), also known as the common black ant , is a formicine ant , the type species of the subgenus Lasius , which is found across Europe and in some parts of North America , South America , Asia and Australasia .
A term used for eusocial insects of the family Formicidae that are black in color. It has been used to describe many ants, including: The Black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) The Black garden ant (Lasius niger) The Little black ant (Monomorium minimum) Some ant mimics look like black ants (see Ant mimicry)
Lasius is a genus of formicine ants. [2] The type species for this genus is the black garden ant, Lasius niger. Other major members, which live in drier heathland, are the cornfield ant, L. neoniger, and L. alienus. Other species include the temporary social parasites of the L. mixtus group and the hyper-social parasite Lasius fuliginosus.
Ochetellus glaber (also known as the black household ant) is a species of ant native to Australia. A member of the genus Ochetellus in the subfamily Dolichoderinae , it was described by Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr in 1862.
From mosquitoes, ants, flies, roaches and more, bugs are everywhere when it’s warm. This summer’s crop of creepy crawlers look ugly and sinister.
Black garden ants (Lasius niger) eating a durian at a market in Pulilan, Bulacan.Note also the fuzzy white scale insect in the center.. Durians are an agricultural product affected by many plant pathogens and pests.
Workers can range from 3.5 to 7.5 mm (0.14 to 0.30 in) in length. [1] The queen ant's size can range from 4 to 10 millimetres (0.16 to 0.39 in). [2] This species can be distinguished from other subgenus by little amounts of erect hairs on the gena, limited erect hairs on the clypeal disc and finally by the color which is a concolorous dark brown-black.
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