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The yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus), also known as the yellow hill ant, is a species of ant occurring in Europe (where it is one of the most common ants), Asia, and North Africa. [1] Populations in North America are now considered a different, related species, Lasius brevicornis. [2] The queen is 7–9 mm long, males 3–4 mm and workers 2 ...
For several months, staff traversed the island surveying over 900 sites. The result was a map of crazy ant supercolonies and red crab burrow densities, together with other biodiversity data. In September 2009, a helicopter was used to precisely bait crazy ant supercolonies, which covered 784 hectares (1,940 acres) of the island.
2006-06-13 17:23 LadyofHats 884×788 (630 kB) {{Information |Description= diagram showing the morphology of a worker ant "Pachycondyla verenae" |Source= Own work the diagram i did myself, for the imformation i used the book "tha ants" from Bert Hölldobler and Edward O.Wilson. together with this websites: [[h
The shape of the ant is pretty similar to that of the butterflies (minus the wings). So, to give those of you who haven't found it yet a hint: Look the upper right corner of the image.
The mandibles of a bull ant. Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure). Their function is typically to grasp, crush, or cut the insect's food, or to defend against predators or rivals.
Lasius interjectus, commonly known as the larger yellow ant, [1] is a species of ant belonging to the genus Lasius, and was formerly a part of the genus (now a subgenus) Acanthomyops. Described in 1866 by Mayr, the species is native to the United States.
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The queens of this species seek out a Lasius niger worker ant to first kill in order to gain the worker ant's scent and then to discreetly sneak inside a L. niger nest. Once inside the L. umbratus queen finds the L. niger queen, and kills her.