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Yellow Meadow Ant

Lasius flavus

3,810Records since 2000
JunePeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan39
Feb92
Mar349
Apr409
May524
Jun616
Jul571
Aug528
Sep286
Oct130
Nov75
Dec57

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Argyll and Bute Scotland251
2Worcestershire England173
3Pembrokeshire Wales155
4Powys Wales120
5Cambridgeshire England110
6Highland Scotland96
7Cumbria England93
8Cornwall England85
9Oxfordshire England68
10North Yorkshire England68
11Devon England60
12Bath and North East Somerset England60
13Swansea Wales58
14Gwynedd Wales52
15Dorset England50
2,742 England443 Scotland563 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,810
Peak month
June
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Lasius flavus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,674
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Lasius
Name with authority
Lasius flavus (Fabricius, 1782)
Described
1782
Contributing datasets
32

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1061241 · GBIF 5035857