#3527 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

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Formica fusca

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Formica fusca is a black-colored ant commonly found throughout Europe as well as parts of Southern Asia and Africa. The range within the palaearctic region extends from Portugal in the west to Japan in the east and from Italy in the south to Fennoscandia in the north. Populations from North America have been split off as a separate species, Formica subaenescens . F. fusca nests are usually found in rotten tree stumps or under stones in clearcut...

base stats

NL sightings 207iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,309iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 207 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #25 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
4,309 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).