Talk:Black garden ant

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220.253.13.225 12:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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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)

[edit] 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?

[edit] 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)