#3638 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Pallid Big-headed Ant

🇳🇱 Gewone dikkop ·Pheidole pallidula

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © 104107668716236637950 · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Bernard Noguès · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Güntzelkiez, Berlin, Germany:© Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
5. 76437 Rastatt, Germany:© Danilo Lüdke · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Piazza della Chiesa, Bellagio, Lombardy, IT:© Sergio Ibarra · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Via Lasagna 19, Gambettola, Emilia-Romagna, IT:© Eddi Bisulli · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. La Ampolla, 43895, Tarragona, España:© Biel Anguera Pujol · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Barcelona, Spain:© Claudia Fernández Bagan · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 21000, Split, Hrvatska:© Anton Gjeldum · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pheidole pallidula is a species of ants in the genus Pheidole . It is widespread around the Mediterranean.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,344iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,344 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.