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Yellow Meadow Ant (Lasius flavus)
Burrowing
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Bug Bite · From the file on Yellow Meadow Ant

Lives ENTIRELY UNDERGROUND in soil mounds — workers RARELY emerge above ground in daylight (only the periodic flying alates emerge for synchronized mating swarms).

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