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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 ...
Lasius umbratus, colloquially known as the yellow shadow ant and yellow lawn ant, [2] is a Palearctic species of parasitic ant distributed across Eurasia and the Maghreb region of Africa. [3]
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.
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
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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 collective term for the segments between the club and the antennal base is the funicle; traditionally in describing beetle anatomy, the term "funicle" refers to the segments between the club and the scape. However, traditionally in working on wasps the funicle is taken to comprise the segments between the club and the pedicel. [10]
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.