Garden ants (Lasius alienus)

Lasius alienus · Lasius

Garden ants (Lasius alienus). Recorded flying from July through September. Dark brown head, dark brown mesosoma, pale amber, swollen gaster. Winged alate; dark brown head/mesosoma against a pale amber, physogastric gaster. Recorded near 65 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do garden ants fly?

Recorded flying from July through September.

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Queen appearance

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Dark brown head, dark brown mesosoma, pale amber, swollen gaster. Winged alate; dark brown head/mesosoma against a pale amber, physogastric gaster.

quick scurrying surface forager

Founding care

Fully claustral: seal her in a test tube setup, somewhere dark and undisturbed. She raises the first brood on her own wing muscles and needs no food or opening until the first workers appear.

Needs a winter diapause: a cool, dark rest period each year.

Diet: Insects, meat, sugar water, honey etc.

Intermediate · Queen ~8-9 mm

Habitat

Soil · also under stones · typical for this genus

After a flight, watch bare or grassy ground for wingless queens. Scan stony ground, paths and kerbs for searching queens.

Recorded near

Barrie Greater Sudbury Halifax, Dartmouth Kingston London St. Catharines Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Etobicoke, Markham, Vaughan, Kitchener, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Burlington, Oshawa, Guelph, Whitby, Milton, Cambridge, Ajax, Thornhill, Waterloo, Brantford Trois-Rivières Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, Newton, Coquitlam, Abbotsford, Langley, Whalley, Delta, Chilliwack Victoria, Saanich Windsor Birmingham, Leicester, Coventry, Nottingham, Derby, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Dudley, Walsall, Mansfield, Telford, Gloucester, Newcastle under Lyme, Solihull, Burton upon Trent, Cheltenham, Chesterfield, Sutton Coldfield, West Bromwich, Worcester Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Swindon, Bournemouth, Newport, Poole, Mendip, Bath Ipswich, Norwich, Saint Peters London, Brent, Islington, Reading, Southend-on-Sea, Brighton, Milton Keynes, City of Westminster, Northampton, Bexley, Luton, Barking, Archway, Sutton, Croydon, Ilford, Slough, Oxford, Enfield Town, Harrow, Cambridge, Basildon, High Wycombe, Colchester, Tottenham, Watford, Crawley, Worthing, Chelmsford, Walthamstow, Dagenham, Basingstoke, Maidstone, Bedford, Woking, Eastbourne, Gillingham, Becontree Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Bradford, Birkenhead, Preston, Oldham, St Helens, Wigan, Warrington, York, Burnley, Huddersfield, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Stockport, Salford, Rotherham, Doncaster, Wakefield Peterborough, Lincoln Plymouth, Exeter Southampton, Portsmouth Dublin, South Dublin Albuquerque Birmingham Boston, South Boston, Worcester, Providence, Lowell, Cambridge, Manchester, New Bedford Buffalo, Amherst Centennial Chattanooga, East Chattanooga Chicago, Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, Elgin Cincinnati Cleveland, Akron Colorado Springs Columbia, MO Columbus, OH Davenport Dayton Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Thornton, Westminster, Arvada, Boulder Detroit, Warren, Sterling Heights Fort Collins Gainesville Greeley Huntsville Jacksonville Knoxville Little Rock 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 Nashville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro New South Memphis, Memphis New York City, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, Newark, Jersey City, Upper West Side, Jamaica, Yonkers, East Flatbush, East New York, Washington Heights, Astoria, Borough Park, Paterson, Bridgeport, Elizabeth, Stamford, Sunset Park, Sheepshead Bay, North Stamford, Harlem, East Harlem, Elmhurst, Bushwick, Gravesend, Corona, Edison Orlando, Palm Bay Peoria, North Peoria Portland, Vancouver, Gresham, Hillsboro Pueblo Raleigh, West Raleigh, Durham, Cary Roanoke Rockford Salt Lake City, West Valley City, Provo, West Jordan South Bend Springfield, IL Springfield, MA, New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury St. Louis Tallahassee Temecula, Murrieta Tucson Victorville Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, East Hampton, Hampton Washington, Baltimore, Arlington, Alexandria

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