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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 .
Ants vary in colour; most ants are yellow to red or brown to black, but a few species are green and some tropical species have a metallic lustre. More than 13,800 species are currently known [37] (with upper estimates of the potential existence of about 22,000; see the article List of ant genera), with the greatest diversity in the tropics ...
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.
Ants have come to occupy virtually all major terrestrial habitats, with the exception of tundra and cold ever-wet forests. They display a wide range of social behaviors, foraging habits and associations with other organisms, which has generated scientific and public interest. [1] The following is a list of worldwide ant genera organised by ...
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)
The largest living land animal, the African bush elephant, is a herbivore. This is a list of herbivorous animals, organized in a roughly taxonomic manner. In general, entries consist of animal species known with good certainty to be overwhelmingly herbivorous, as well as genera and families which contain a preponderance of such species.
These are animals that eat or destroy durian fruit or trees. Many of these are shot or poisoned by farmers. [6] Some of these species naturally act as seed dispersers, [7] which benefits the plant but does not benefit farmers. black hornbill (Anthracoceros malayanus) [7] squirrel [6] grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps) [1]
Regarding domesticated animals, more than 1,000 of the 4,000 known species of aphids and around 500 species of Lepidoptera are affected by ant domestication. [11] In comparison, Homo sapiens engages in farming and agriculture with '260 plant, 470 animal and 100 mushroom-forming fungal species'. [ 10 ]