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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 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 ...
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.
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)
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.
A similar German story involving army ants, Leiningen Versus the Ants, was written in 1937 and recreated in movie form as The Naked Jungle in 1954. [232] In more recent times, animated cartoons and 3-D animated films featuring ants have been produced including Antz, A Bug's Life, The Ant Bully, The Ant and the Aardvark, Ferdy the Ant and Atom Ant.
The ant was identified in 1990 after establishing a colony in Budapest, Hungary. [2] Superficially, they are similar in appearance to the common black garden ant, Lasius niger , but have significantly different behavioural patterns, particularly in the social structure within colonies.
This is a list of ants of Great Britain, including endemic and introduced species.Compared with much of the rest of Europe, Great Britain has a smaller number of ants.The size and diversity of ant species in any area is largely determined by the highest summer soil temperature, and this being so, it is not surprising that the greatest concentration of different species is centred in the warmer ...