Garden ants (Lasius platythorax)

Lasius platythorax · Lasius
Garden ants (Lasius platythorax). Recorded flying from June through August. Dark brown to blackish head, dark brown mesosoma, dark brown to black gaster. Flatter, broader mesonotum profile than L. niger, matching its name. Recorded near 13 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do garden ants fly?

Recorded flying from June through August.

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Queen appearance

Dark brown to blackish head, dark brown mesosoma, dark brown to black gaster. Flatter, broader mesonotum profile than L. niger, matching its name.
fast surface forager, favors moist, rotting-wood habitats
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.
Diet: Insects, meat, sugar water, honey etc.
Beginner · Queen ~8-9 mm
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Care data from antkeeping.info (CC BY 4.0).

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.

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