Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Formica rufa


Red Wood Ant(english)
Hormiga roja(spanish)
Native to europa and preferred habitat is coniferous forest in which it can make huge nests.The Red Wood Ant is collecting all sorts of food,it is edible it collects it.In forestry it is populair because it removes pest animals.Also the Red Wood Ant is harvasting the Aphids(plant lice),which excrete honeydew.The Red Wood Ant is in some places protected,because it is getting endangered due to habitat destruction.From Galicia

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