Reproduction
During mid-summer the queens and males perform the nuptial flight, mating in midair. The males die shortly after. Each queen constructs a new nest, sheds its wings, and lays eggs. The development from egg to adult takes about a month.In a laboratory setting queens were found to live about one year and workers about four months.
Food
"Monomorium minimum" are scavengers that will consume anything from bird droppings to dead insects. They are predators of codling moth larvae, and also of fall webworm. Workers may forage in households, but nest in soil mounds. It also tends aphids such as the soybean aphid, harvesting honeydew.References:
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