#3599 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Yellow Meadow Ant
🇳🇱 Gele weidemier ·Lasius flavus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Enrico Strada · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Shamil Murtazin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © David Bellamy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © naturalist_ua · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Philipp Hoenle · CC0
- 8. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Samuel P.C. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © David Bellamy · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The yellow meadow ant , (also yellow hill ant , formal name Lasius flavus ), is one of the most common ants in Central Europe, and it also occurs in Asia and North Africa, but populations in North America are a different, related species ( Lasius brevicornis ).
base stats
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 35 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,249 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1782 (244 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow Meadow Ant
- Nederlands
- Gele weidemier
- scientific name
- Lasius flavus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Formicidae
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 1,548
- sightings worldwide
- 5,249
- GBIF records in NL
- 959
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1782 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Formicidae
#3512 📷 10Jet Ant
🇳🇱 Glanzende houtmier
Lasius fuliginosus
👀 582 in NL
#3527 📷 10Grauwzwarte renmier
Formica fusca
👀 207 in NL
#3528 📷 10Blood-red Field Ant
🇳🇱 Bloedrode roofmier
Formica sanguinea
👀 206 in NL
#3531 📷 10Southern Wood Ant
🇳🇱 Behaarde rode bosmier
Formica rufa
NT 👀 183 in NL
#3545 📷 10Brown Tree Ant
🇳🇱 Boommier
Lasius brunneus
👀 119 in NL
#3547 📷 8Black Garden Ant
🇳🇱 Wegmier
Lasius niger
👀 105 in NL
#3549 📷 10Bosslankmier
Temnothorax nylanderi
👀 100 in NL
#3555 📷 8Black-backed meadow ant
🇳🇱 Zwartrugbosmier
Formica pratensis
NT 👀 84 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 69315, Wikidata Q1061241, GBIF 5035857, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.