wood ant

On the way up, look out for several wood ant nests.

All the wood ants have a distinctive red and black covering.

When red wood ants encounter members of different colonies similar responses are made.

Take care around the nests, because wood ants have a vicious bite!

There are several wood ants nests along the stretch, so before sitting down just check that the area's clear!

Attempts to preserve the red wood ants are a part of the UK biodiversity plan.

The wood supports a number of wood ant nests.

You only need to stir up the nest of a wood ant with a stick (not with your hand) to be able to smell them.

A part of the UK biodiversity plant, these red wood ants preservation attempts are occurring.

It produces a sugary liquid from small glands under its petals, which wood ants feed on.

Already a few hardy wood ants and honeybees were abroad in the copse fringes.

Wood ants will spray acid at attackers.

European red wood ant may refer to:

The type species is the European red wood ant Formica rufa.

A species of wood ant does something similar, gathering small bits of spruce-tree resin and scattering them about the nest.

Red wood ants prey on pestiferous insects and forest defoliators like spruce budworms.

Its appearance in the north signified the arrival of the larvae of the wood ant (a food item) in spring.

Larvae live in nests of red wood ant (Formica rufa), feeding on vegetable refuses.

Formica lugubris, also known as the hairy wood ant is common in the forests of the United Kingdom.

Wood ants share the same habitat as the treecreeper, and also feed on invertebrates on tree trunks.

Similar to other species of wood ants, Formica lugubris can be identified by a fringe of hairs that reaches down to their eyes.

Formica pratensis is a species of European red wood ant in the family Formicidae.

Of the two, Annagarriff is thought to be home to the only colony of Scottish wood ants in Ireland.

(The word already existed, the Latin name for wood ants, from which formic acid and the resulting formaldehyde compound used in the resin were first isolated).

Ants, such as wood ants, are common on willows inhabited by aphids, coming to collect aphid honeydew, as sometimes do wasps.