Alien garden ant
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Stranger garden ant workers |
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| Lasius alienus | ||||||||||||
| ( Forester , 1850) |
The foreign garden ant ( Lasius alienus ) belongs in the subfamily of the scale ants (Formicinae) to the genus of the garden ants ( Lasius ).
features
The workers are two to four millimeters long. They are dark brown to black in color, the fine body hair is silvery and protruding hair is largely absent. The queen is seven to nine millimeters long, the males are three to four millimeters long. The sex animals swarm between August and September.
The foreign garden ant is similar to the black garden ant ( Lasius niger ), but it is smaller than this and it lacks the longer body hair. The black ant is much more hairy on the antennae and legs.
distribution and habitat
The alien garden ant is widespread throughout Central Europe and is quite common. It prefers undisturbed tracts of land and lives in barren and sparsely vegetated locations that are too dry for other garden ants.
Way of life
The alien garden ant forms monogynous states that are rich in individuals . It feeds mainly on insects and the honeydew of the aphids , scale lice and root lice . It usually creates its nests under stones, rarely in the open field.
swell
- Heiko Bellmann : bees, wasps, ants. Hymenoptera of Central Europe . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-440-09690-4
