more varieties for Loosestrife. Lysimachia punctata, or whorled loosestrife, has whorls of 1-inch yellow flowers along the upper part of leafy 3-foot stems. The dark 3-inch leaves, sometimes variegated with white, are also arranged in whorls.In the damp areas that circle flower prefers, it may become invasive.ore varieties for Loosestrife. Lysimachia punctata, or whorled loosestrife, has whorls of 1-inch yellow flowers along the upper part of leafy 3-foot stems. The dark 3-inch leaves, sometimes variegated with white, are also arranged in whorls.
Oecophylla smaragdina queen. A queen ant is an adult, reproducing female ant in an ant colony; generally she will be the mother of all the other ants in that colony.Some female ants do not need to mate to produce offspring, reproducing through asexual parthenogenesis or cloning, and all of those offspring will be female.ueen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect â up to 30 years. A queen of Lasius niger was held in captivity by German entomologist Hermann Appel for 28Â¾ years; also a Pogonomyrmex owyheei has a maximum estimated longevity of 30 years in the field.
Ants are social insects and are divided up into three castes: workers, males, and queens (figure 1). Workers are sterile, wingless females which range in size from 1/20 inch long to about 1/2 inch long. The workers of some ant species vary in size and are divided into major (large) and minor (small) workers. Ants vary in color from yellow to red to brown and black and various combinations of these. Like all insects, ants have three distinctive body parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. All ants have a pair of elbowed (bent) antennae on the head and a constricted area between the thorax and abdomen called the petiole. The petiole has either one or two nodes (bumps) (figure 2).