Carr's book lists just a single
record of Lasius umbratus, when two (post
Nuptial flight) Queens were found on a road at Tollerton
in 1908 (Crawley,
W.C.) but there are
recent records from neighbouring Leicestershire, even
reaching as close as Loughborough (Leicestershire and Rutland Environmental
Records Centre).
It was suspected
this ant may well be in the very south of
Nottinghamshire, before the finding of a Lasius fuliginosus
colony at Netherfield Lagoons in 2018 further raised hopes of
umbratus (the host species for fuliginosus queens) turning
up. And it eventually did, when many Lasius umbratus workers
were found co-existing with foraging Lasius fuliginosus workers
after a second fuliginosus colony was found at Netherfield in
October 2023 (Pendleton, T.A.).
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