Yellow meadow ant
The yellow meadow ant is a tiny yellow ant that lives almost all its life underground. You might never see the ants, but you can spot their homes: little bumps of soil in lawns and meadows. Living in the dark has made them pale, with small eyes.
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Fun facts
It is one of the most common ants in Europe.
On warm days in July and August the worker ants push the young winged ants out of the nest so they can fly away.
Several queens may start a nest together, but later they fight until only one is left.
One big family can have up to 250,000 worker ants spread over many joined nests.
The queen is much bigger than the workers, up to about 9 millimetres long.
Most asked questions about Yellow meadow ant
?What does the yellow meadow ant eat?
Mostly the sweet juice from root aphids that it keeps in its nest. Sometimes it eats the aphids too.
?What are the little soil bumps in my lawn?
They are often yellow meadow ant nests, hidden under the grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lasius flavus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Also known as
- Yellow hill ant
Where the facts come from
- Yellow meadow ant (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by AJC1 from UK. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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