Lasius flavus

Lasius flavus is a Espèce of Fourmi S very widespread in Europe, but that one also meets in Asia, in the north of the Africa as in the east of the North America. It belongs to the family of formicinés, lasius kind.

Description

The queen measures from 7 to 9 millimetres length, the males from 3 to 4 millimetres and the workers from 2 to 4 millimetres. These ants have colors going of the yellow to brown, the queen and the males being appreciably darker.

Habitat

This species lives mainly in the meadows, the nests being generally entirely under the ground and covered with grass.

Lifestyle

Reproducers essaiment especially days of heat in full summer. Several queens intend themselves to form a colony, but thereafter they fight between them and only one remainder in the colony, which will be monogyne. These ants often install their nests safe from stones and build vast monticules, often covered with grass. They almost exclusively nourish honeydew, secreted by plant louses which they raise in underground shelters, so that they are seldom seen because their nests almost do not have exits. During the winter they devour the plant louses.

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