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Борис Лейкин, 04.06.2006 18:12

In our city, in Yaroslavl, black ants appear in the summer, it seems, at the end of July,
at the beginning of August, which run on the asphalt, some
with wings. I have long wanted to know what kind of ants they are, and where they come from?
Don't know? Can you tell me the literature or links from the Net? Thank you.

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04.06.2006 23:00, Chromocenter

It is difficult to say what kind of ants, according to such meager data, but the fact that they are sexual individuals during the summer period is unequivocal. Without wings, probably those who have already lost them (chewed off as unnecessary) and will soon begin to establish new nests or will be accepted into the old one.

04.06.2006 23:46, Guest

Probably someone from the Lasius family (for example, Lasius niger)

05.06.2006 18:42, Борис Лейкин

At all other times of the year, you will never see such ants.
They always appear, in my opinion, at about the same time, in the summer.
You go out, then, on the street one day (this is not necessarily
somewhere in the country, although I also saw them there, but it can be in
the city center), and the asphalt is teeming with them, although I may be a little bent.
They don't look like forest ants, they have bigger bellies, and I
don't think they have big jaws. Can they be stray ants,
those that do not have an anthill, and they just move from place
to place in search of food? Although, to be honest, I just made it
up myself, about stray ants, because I'm not sure if there are any such things.

This post was edited by Boris Leikin - 05.06.2006 18: 43

05.06.2006 18:49, Chromocenter

There are stray ants, but as far as I know, they are not found in the latitudes of Yaroslavl - they are tropical species. These ants are different from others because they are sexual, not working individuals, which you usually see. The abdomen is larger - because their almost sole function is reproduction.

07.06.2006 7:48, Dmitry Vlasov

These are black garden ants!!!! Which at this time just happens to fly out males and females, and then lay new nests.
I know for sure, because I'm from Yaroslavl myself.

07.06.2006 18:59, Борис Лейкин

Yes, indeed, Lasius Niger.
I didn't know. teapot.gif I'm so clueless. weep.gif

Duck, these ants are probably bred at home by amateurs?

Try to find a female,
As it is written in this the link.
And put it in a jar.
You must have a grin on your face. smile.gif

31.07.2006 19:50, guest: Владислав

Indeed, "we" breed them, as they are the most unpretentious. Check the parameters: solid black, workers and males are 4-5 mm long, females are larger (up to 1 cm). It is enough to catch a female (the one you saw, the fat-bellied one) after the mating flight, when she has already dropped her wings - and into an artificial nest (even in a test tube with moisture). I even named my own ant site www.Lasius.narod.ru named after the black garden ant Lasius niger, whose family he kept in a laboratory nest for five years. Although what a "garden" it is, if you can find it everywhere from forests to Red Square. Vladislav.

01.08.2006 15:36, Santa Claus

here are some similar types of lasiuses: http://ants.dp.ua/sub_Formicinae/Lasius_sp
the very first photo: a winged queen and Lasius niger workers

it is possible that he received the name garden for the damage caused (by aphid breeding) to fruit and other trees in gardens

03.08.2006 17:46, Борис Лейкин

Hurray! It's started! Appeared!
Yesterday (2.08.2006) the sun was shining, I saw them crawling, so far not very much,
today it is overcast and raining, all the ants hid somewhere, with great difficulty
I managed to find at least one and take a closer look. By the way, they are all without wings,
and even slightly different in size from each other (no, they are exactly the same,
but there are individuals slightly smaller in size).
All the asphalt is covered in flat cakes from the crushed ones.

04.08.2006 6:27, vespabellicosus

In our city, too, wingless female lasiuses have now appeared in large numbers-they are almost everywhere - on the highway, in gardens, in shops. If each one founded a nest, the entire surface of the city would be covered in piles.

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