Until only
very recently, there was just a single Nottinghamshire
record from Sherwood Forest dating to 1907 and it was
believed that Lasius fuliginosus had long since
died out in the county. However, news of the discovery of
a colony at Netherfield in August 2018 (Kavanagh, T.) was forwarded to us a few weeks later by
Peter Smith, who informed us that workers were tending
Aphids on Tansy (Tenacetum vulgare), close to
the River Trent.
In 2023, a second fuliginosus
colony, with many workers tending at least two species of Aphids on Goat
Sallow, was located some way from the original colony found in 2018
(Tyler, M.).
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