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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 Acanthomyops (Lasius Subgenus Acanthomyops) » Smaller Yellow Ant (Lasius claviger)
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Ants cluster – Mating swarm - Lasius claviger - male - female
Copyright © 2010 Caroline Muir

Ants cluster – Mating swarm - Lasius claviger - Male Female
Framingham / Garden in The Woods, Massachusetts, USA
September 21, 2008

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Ants cluster – Mating swarm - Lasius claviger - male - female Ants cluster – Mating ritual - Lasius claviger - male - female
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Contributed by Caroline Muir on 29 August, 2010 - 9:25am
Last updated 27 February, 2011 - 10:13am

Moved
Picture a bit on the fuzzy side, bu pretty sure about the ID of this common ant.
Compare this:
… James C. Trager, 29 November, 2010 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 22 October, 2010 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

Actually
It looks like a mating swarm. Note the winged males and females.
As for the genus, I'd say Lasius.
… metrioptera, 29 August, 2010 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

 
Metrioptera, Are you telli
Metrioptera,

Are you telling me that there is only one species of Ant in these pictures?
… Caroline Muir, 29 August, 2010 - 12:11pm login or register to post comments

 
yes, same sp.
different species don't mix this way -- generally, ants would kill (or in some cases enslave) any other species they come across
… v belov, 26 September, 2010 - 12:46pm login or register to post comments

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