Lasius

Huge swarms of common black garden ants, Latin name Lasius niger, have emerged from nests nationwide over the last few days.

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A US FWS researcher is looking for the Charleston ant, Lasius nevadensis, in Nevada, which hasn't been seen since the 1950s.

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While populations of certain dominant ant species (notably Lasius paralienus) as well as certain aphid taxa increased, these increases came at the expense of population losses of numerous rarer taxa.

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This is our _Lasius niger_, which carries seeds of _Viola_ into its nests, and, as Wittmack has communicated recently to the Sitzungsberichte der gesellschaft naturforschender freunde zu Berlin, does the same with the seeds of

Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various

_Lasius flavus_, and always with the result that the workers became very excited and killed her, even though in one case the nest was without a queen.

Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various

Such species as _Lasius flavus_ represent a distinctly higher type of social life; they show more skill in architecture, may literally be said to have domesticated certain species of aphids, and may be compared to the pastoral stage of human progress -- to the races which live on the products of their flocks and herds.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Raphel (1673-1740), Lasius (1775), and Arnoldi (1777).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

On one occasion, I took ten _Lasius niger_ and confined them in a specially constructed formicary so that they could not possibly leave the nest.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

-- Experiments with ants, _Lasius flavus_, _Lasius niger_, and

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

Sir John Lubbock chloroformed some _Lasius niger_ belonging to his formicary.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881