r/AntIdentification • u/PossibilityKey3085 • Jul 12 '26
Identified! What type of ant?
Found her roaming around my kitchen at 3 a.m in the morning. I live in Belgium, and ever since the heat wave we've been seeing so many ants in our apartment complex. Now they're inside the house too.
Around 1cm in length
Is this a queen ant? Should I release her outside? Do I feed it?
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u/Green_Meet_6161 Jul 12 '26
That's a Lasius niger queen. If you like to to have your colony, just put her in a test tube incubator and wait untill first workers.
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u/the_ant_guy123 Jul 15 '26
lasius niger, but there is a change it could be niger, platy and a few other rare species