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Red Ant

Myrmica rubra

1,529Records since 2000
MayPeak month
83Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb5
Mar39
Apr172
May309
Jun245
Jul237
Aug263
Sep119
Oct25
Nov10
Dec8

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England111
2Norfolk England96
3Cambridgeshire England63
4Powys Wales39
5Devon England38
6Sheffield England34
7Highland Scotland29
8Somerset England29
9Suffolk England27
10North Yorkshire England24
11Lincolnshire England22
12Oxfordshire England21
13Bath and North East Somerset England20
14Surrey England19
15Essex England19
1,172 England61 Scotland111 Wales23 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 83 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,529
Peak month
May
Counties with records
83
Scientific name
Myrmica rubra
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,314
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Myrmica
Name with authority
Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q650996 · GBIF 1318874