| 词条 | Little black ant |
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| name = Monomorium minimum | image = Monomorium minimum casent0173040 profile 1.jpg | status_system = | status = | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | ordo = Hymenoptera | familia = Formicidae | subfamilia = Myrmicinae | tribus = Solenopsidini | genus = Monomorium | species = M. minimum | binomial = Monomorium minimum | binomial_authority = Buckley, (1866) }} The little black ant (Monomorium minimum) is a species of ant native to North America.[1] It is a shiny black color, the workers about 1 to 2 mm long and the queens 4 to 5 mm long. It is a monomorphic species, with only one caste of worker, and polygyne, meaning a nest may have more than one queen. A colony is usually moderately sized with only a few thousand workers.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Monomorium minimum are scavengers that will consume anything from bird droppings to dead insects. They are predators of codling moth larvae, and also of fall webworm.[2][3] Workers may forage in households, but nest in soil mounds. It also tends aphids such as the soybean aphid (Aphis glycines), harvesting honeydew.[4]During mid-summer the queens and males perform the nuptial flight, mating in midair. The males die shortly after. Each queen constructs a new nest, sheds its wings, and lays eggs. The development from egg to adult takes about a month.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} In a laboratory setting queens were found to live about one year and workers about four months.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} References1. ^Monomorium minimum. AntWeb. 2. ^{{Cite book|title=The Biology of the Codling Moth as the Basis for Its Control|last=Tadic|first=M.|publisher=Univerzitet U Beogradu|year=1957|isbn=|location=|pages=|title-link=Codling Moth}} 3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Warren|first=L. O.|last2=Tadić|first2=Milorad|date=1967|title=The Fall Webworm, Hyphantria cunea, Its Distribution and Natural Enemies: A World List (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)|jstor=25083620|journal=Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society|volume=40|issue=2|pages=194–202}} 4. ^Herbert, J. J. and D. J. Horn. (2008). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19036205 Effect of ant attendance by Monomorium minimum (Buckley) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on predation and parasitism of the soybean aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae).] Environmental Entomology 37(5), 1258-63. External links
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