Talk:Black garden ant

220.253.13.225 12:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Hi, I'm doing a Wikipedia project for my school. Following are some comments I had of this article.

This article contains basic information on its size, appearance, and location. Its strongest point is its particular focus on the species’ life cycle. It details the mating process, the queen’s new nest, egg to ant, and the established new colony. At the end of the article, the author mentions almost miscellaneous facts about these black ants and how they are nuisances. Probably the biggest issue I noticed was the lack of citations. There was only one reference at the bottom. The article actually does not mention the workers in detail. The book, "An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology" by Davies, Krebs, and West states that the workers are sterile females that do not develop wings. Also, as the colony produces a new cohort of reproductive, the winged females and males leave the colony on their nuptial flights. The old colony reproduces for a decade, but then dies off. I feel that this is a key detail that the article did not include. Alexliu818 (talk) 19:53, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Untitled

maybe i'm overly sentimental, but too much of this article seems to be devoted to ways of murdering ants. Why so violent? --81.134.132.242 3 July 2005 19:46 (UTC)

LOL, I just read the article and see what User:81.134.132.242 is saying, in fact after reading most of the British ant articles much work needs to be done to bring the articles up to a satisfactory level. Nick Boulevard 13:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

There is article in francais, and i think it's quite good. Someone could translate that! --62.236.100.238 12:31, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

What would happen if i put red ants in a black ant home. Will the red ants kill the black ants? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesse79 (talk • contribs) 17:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Big ants

I'm pretty sure this concerns this particular species, what are those large ants you can see scurrying on the streets during summer? Do they have something to do with the queen's flight or are they just storing up sugar, what?

You can never tell for sure without careful identification, but it is probably the black garden ants swarming. The big ones are probably queens - do they look like the one on the pictures in the article?Jens Nielsen 20:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Those are either another species of ant, or they are wingless queens.

Most likely the ants your describing are queens, after mating in the air, with the male ants their wings fall off on the ground and they spend a lot of time wandering about looking for a suitable site to lay their eggs and start a new colony. Most die, but a tiny handful don't and thus the ant species they belong to, continues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slayer of Cliffracers (talk • contribs)

Thank you, I think I got my answer.194.171.56.13 08:44, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

In Australia we have tiny black ants around 3 millimetres long. Are these the same species as the ones mentioned in the article?

Macro photograph link

I have removed the macro photograph link, because it wasn't a Lasius niger. I forgot to log in. Calamarain (talk) 15:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Pismires

In Sweden we call Myrmicinae "pissmyror". Myror is the swedish word for ants (myra in singularis) and piss means piss (urine). They are called that because they piss on you, i.e. they sting you (and it smells and taste somewhat like urine). I would guess that the Irish word has Scandinavian origin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.252.0.19 (talk) 11:11, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

What do ants in flight realize?

"Even in flight, the ants will soon realize that they have chosen the wrong place to start their mating flight." What does that mean? They take off in blissful ignorance, only to realize when they reach 40 feet that they should have crawled to the next lot and taken off from there? When the sentence was introduced, it was the assumed reaction of the ants to "ensur[ing] that all food surfaces are clean and free from sugar and sweet substances that will surely tempt the ants to return on a regular basis for food", but in later edits it was made to be in reaction to "leav[ing] insecticide bait that ants take back to their nest". In neither case does the following sentence about the mating flight make any sense to me.  --Lambiam 15:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

New quarantine section

Hey all, added a new section regarding the ants' quarantine behavior. Cool stuff! I'm posting a link to the original study here for anyone curious to no more or add to the section. Thanks. PcPrincipal (talk) 21:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Confusing descriptions

Hi! I find the descriptions of the different case a bit confusing. E.g. the drones, first it says that they can be 3.5-4.5 mm, then at the end it says 5-7 mm. Just me who finds this confusing? Which span is correct???

• Good point you're right. Hopefully someone who knows will fix this. Invasive Spices (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

missing important details

It would be good if you specify here if there is a class of soldiers in this type of ant. as well as some of their attack and defense strategies 190.236.15.65 (talk) 05:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)