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Turfgrass Ant

Lasius neoniger

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 72, February 74, March 117, April 230, May 442, June 207, July 156, August 141, September 148, October 121, November 76, December 68.
United States7,453
Canada2,883
Ontario1,853
New York993
North Carolina522
Massachusetts492
Michigan448
Virginia417
Illinois346
Colorado341

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Ecological

  • ColonialFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyAnts · Formicidae
GenusCitronella Ants, Fuzzy Ants, and Allies · Lasius

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