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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Formicinae » Lasiini » Citronella Ants (Lasius) » Subgenus Lasius (Lasius Subgenus Lasius)
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ant swarm - Lasius - female
Copyright © 2018 Molly Jacobson

ant swarm - Lasius - Female
Greeley Park, Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
August 15, 2018
Came upon a swarm of ants on a sandy path in a power line right-of-way around 5:30pm. Ants were pouring out of uneven holes in the ground (no mounds). I have included photos of workers and alates, and if any other angles are needed for ID I'm sure I could find them, as I took a few hundred photos of the spectacle. I am interested to know what species this is, as I've never seen them before!

This first photo was one of the hundreds of future-queens.

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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 28 November, 2018 - 9:28pm
Last updated 23 January, 2019 - 9:46am

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… Steven Wang, 23 January, 2019 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

Lasius (Lasius) sp.
I don't know enough about this genus at the moment to know the species, but it is one of the darkly colored ones.
… Steven Wang, 29 November, 2018 - 9:25am login or register to post comments

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