black garden ant

[صاصائیل]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/IC_Lasius_with_chelicerae.JPG/220px-IC_Lasius_with_chelicerae.JPG



The black garden ant (Lasius Niger) is a formicine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formicidae) ant, the type species of the subgenus Lasius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasius), found all over Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe) and in some parts of North America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America) and Asia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia). It is monogynous, meaning colonies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony) have a single queen


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_ant)

Attribute
Description


Caste
Monogyny


Queen phenotype
7–9 mm long, colour black


Worker phenotype
3–5 mm long, colour dark brown almost black


Soldier phenotype
N/A


Nest building
Nests underground, commonly under stones, but also in rotten wood


Nutrition
Nectar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectar), small insects, seeds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed), will farm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm) aphids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid)



(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_ant)

[صاصائیل]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Common_jassid_nymphs_and_ants02.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ants_eating_cicada,_jjron_22.11.2009.jpg