Argentine Ant

Linepithema humile

Notes 4

Those tiny little ants that sometimes come into the house in the wet season. After rain (particularly the first fall rains) you can sometimes see aggregations of winged ones embarking on their nuptial flight. An invasive species accidentally introduced to the US in the soil of oleander plants. They form supercolonies with hundreds of queens each (look this up, it's amazing. each supercolony is seriously like the size of Arizona).

Fontes e Créditos

  1. (c) Ferran Turmo Gort, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/fturmog/6944800058/
  2. (c) Marc Matteo, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/lectroidmarc/4215862643/
  3. (c) Jon Sullivan, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/7935985982/
  4. (c) sea-kangaroo, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA)

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Status introduced
Color brown