#3583 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Red-barbed Ant

🇳🇱 Rode renmier ·Formica rufibarbis

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bakos Ádám · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jonghyun Park · CC BY 4.0
3. © Max Devis · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Max Devis · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Bakos Ádám · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Wanroij, Netherlands:© Max Devis · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Molenhoek, Netherlands:© Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 6581 EB Malden, Holandia:© Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Formica rufibarbis is a European formicine ant of the Formica fusca group. In the classification by Auguste Forel, it is treated in the subgenus Serviformica . F. rufibarbis is subject to a Species Action Plan (SAP) in England, where it is known from only two locations, although it is not considered to be at risk on continental Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 41iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,659iNaturalist 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).