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Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 558 No. 558 |

Wood, Mound, and Field Ants
Wood, Mound, and Field Ants (Formica) – genus of family “Ants“

Ancestry Graph

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This is not intended to be a dry lexicon. Personal stories and sensitive articles form the framework for our pictures: „Death in the garden“ Otto, the earwig, experiences an environment that is becoming increasingly dangerous due to the use of neonicotinoids and confronts the deadly consequences of these insecticides for himself and other insects.

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Death in the garden

„Wood, Mound, and Field Ants“ also appeared in the following editions of Arthropods Daily