Wood ants (Formica truncorum)

Formica truncorum · Formica

Wood ants (Formica truncorum). Recorded flying from June through August. Orange head, orange-red mesosoma, dark brown-black gaster. Bright orange-red head and thorax against a near-black gaster. Recorded near 1 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do wood ants fly?

Recorded flying from June through August.

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Queen appearance

Orange head, orange-red mesosoma, dark brown-black gaster. Bright orange-red head and thorax against a near-black gaster.

fast, erratic trunk-trail runner typical of red wood ants, known for aerial mating swarms on mounds

Founding care

Socially parasitic: she cannot found a colony alone. Without a host colony's workers to rear her first brood there is nothing for good husbandry to save.

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Habitat

Soil · also thatched mound · typical for this genus

After a flight, watch bare or grassy ground for wingless queens. Scan open ground near woodland for wandering queens and thatch mounds.

Recorded near

Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim, Riverside, Santa Ana, Irvine, San Bernardino, Fontana, Oxnard, Moreno Valley, Huntington Beach, Glendale, Santa Clarita, Garden Grove, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Hollywood, Corona, Lancaster, Palmdale, Pomona, Valencia, Torrance, Pasadena, Orange, Fullerton, Van Nuys, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, East Los Angeles, Koreatown, El Monte, Downey, Costa Mesa, Inglewood, West Covina, Norwalk, Burbank, Universal City, Rialto

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