Wood Ant nest, Ash training area
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Wood Ant nest, Ash training area
Image: © Alan Hunt Taken: 23 Aug 2015
A large Wood Ant nest beside the Old Guildford Road in the woods used as a military training area. These nests can get very large and hold more than 100,000 individuals with multiple queens to each nest. There are a number of Formica species that go under the name of Wood Ant, this one is probably Formica rufa.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.293155
Longitude
-0.70304