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New Born... The Lasius Niger Queen I&#039;ve been looking after for a month now has had her first baby!!<br /> You can see how tiny she is, small and spindly as she won&#039;t have had any mature ants feeding her as she was growing...<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/31882/new_lasius_niger_queen.html" title="New Lasius Niger Queen"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2488/31882_thumb.JPG?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=rMlfoR0l5tzASfD3PaLKzbEyGoo%3D" width="200" height="134" alt="New Lasius Niger Queen What an exciting evening - after very heavy rain yesterday and warm/humid weather today, it would appear that conditions were perfect for the nuptial flights! Hundreds of Lasius Niger males and newly impregnated queens landed in my garden. It was nice to sit out having a BBQ and watching them all fly round and land, looking for their new nesting site so they can start their own colony. Really pleased I got to witness it :) Black garden ant,Lasius niger" /></a></figure> Black garden ant,Lasius niger Click/tap to enlarge

New Born...

The Lasius Niger Queen I've been looking after for a month now has had her first baby!!
You can see how tiny she is, small and spindly as she won't have had any mature ants feeding her as she was growing...

New Lasius Niger Queen What an exciting evening - after very heavy rain yesterday and warm/humid weather today, it would appear that conditions were perfect for the nuptial flights! Hundreds of Lasius Niger males and newly impregnated queens landed in my garden. It was nice to sit out having a BBQ and watching them all fly round and land, looking for their new nesting site so they can start their own colony. Really pleased I got to witness it :) Black garden ant,Lasius niger

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The Black garden ant

The black garden ant is a formicine ant, the type species of the subgenus ''Lasius'', found all over Europe and in some parts of North America and Asia. It is monogynous, meaning colonies have a single queen.

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Similar species: Wasps, Bees, Sawflies And Ants
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Uploaded Sep 30, 2015. Captured Sep 30, 2015 19:35.
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  • Canon EOS 600D
  • f/10.0
  • 1/256s
  • ISO100
  • 55mm

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