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Red wood ant

Formica rufa

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Furmiclas

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The red wood ant is a large forest ant that builds big, dome-shaped nests of twigs, grass and pine needles. It lives across much of Europe and northern Asia, from Scandinavia and Great Britain to Lake Baikal. It is special because its colonies can be huge and have several queens, and it can spray formic acid from its abdomen to defend itself.1

Viva en

Eurasia: from middle Scandinavia and Great Britain to northern Iberia, Anatolia and Lake Baikal1

Europa, Asia

Pagina iniziala

Boreal woodland, usually in clearings where sunlight reaches the nest. Nests are built against rotting stumps and are large, visible mounds made of grass, twigs or conifer needles.1

Lunghezza

4,5 mm fin 9 mm (0,2 in fin 0,4 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

Its main food is honeydew from aphids, a sugary liquid. It also hunts insects and arachnids and scavenges, and it forages along trails up to 100 m long.1

Foto da Red wood ant — Red wood ant. Foto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

Head and thorax (front body) are red, while the abdomen (rear) is brownish-black.1
Usually has dark patches on the head and the upper part of the thorax, though some individuals are more uniformly reddish.1
Workers measure 4.5 to 9 mm long and have large mandibles (jaws).1
Builds large, conspicuous dome-shaped mounds in woodland clearings.1

Savens confundì cun: Closely related wood ants are hard to separate by eye. Under magnification, the amount of hair is a key clue: this species is hairier than Formica polyctena but less hairy than Formica lugubris.1

Forza dal tissi

Sprizza u spida

El sprizza u spida in liquid che piztga sin ses attatgaders.

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When threatened, workers spray formic acid from their abdomens and defend the nest by guarding entrances and patrolling nearby areas.1

Sch'el ta sprizza

Lava e sfradenta las piztgadas.
Sche la persuna ha difficultads da respirar, unfladiras da la fatscha u da la gula, u sch'ella sa senta sco da svanir, è quai ina urgenza allergica: clama tes numer d'urgenza.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta sprizza: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè pitschen ch'el po seser sin tia ungla

Quant grond è Red wood ant cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina lindorna da curtin circa 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Red wood ant circa 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

Formic acid was first extracted in 1671 by the English naturalist John Ray, who distilled a large number of crushed ants of this species.1

Wood ants raid the nests of other ants and insects, and some species take captured young back to their own colony as workers.1

Some colonies are huge networks of connected nests, and some of these nests can be several metres high and wide.1

Wood ants collect resin from conifer trees and use it in their nests for structure, protection and antimicrobial defence.1

A large colony may have 100,000 to 400,000 workers and 100 queens.1

Forestry uses this species, which is introduced into an area as a form of pest management.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Formica rufa
Gruppa: Furmiclas
Famiglia: Formicidae2
Urden: Hymenoptera
Continents: Europa, Asia
Poppins: Queens lay eggs, and new nests form by budding from existing nests in spring or by a queen taking over another species' nest.1
Privel per umans: 1 / 5: Lev3

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Formica rufa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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