yellow meadow ant
yellow hill ant
lasius flavus latin

They are made by the Yellow meadow ant.

It's long been known that the British yellow meadow ant suffers from the attention of a parasitic mite.

Yellow meadow ants make distinctive mounds in the meadow.

Ant-hills from the Yellow Meadow Ant are present in the pasture.

Most of the landscape is largely unaffected by agriculture as shown by the Yellow meadow ant.

"Anthills produced by the yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus) are a feature of several slopes.

The Yellow Meadow Ant thrives on this Bank.

The Yellow Meadow Ant feeds on the honeydew from root aphids, which they breed in their nests.

The Yellow Meadow Ant creates numerous anthills, which is an indicator of the ancient nature of the grassland.

They are sometimes confused with Lasius flavus (Yellow Meadow Ant) but unlike L. flavus they forage for food on the surface.

Thousands of anthills of the yellow meadow ant can be found in the ancient grasslands of Old Hall Marshes as well as around twenty-four species of butterfly.

Some species of dairying ants (such as the European yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus) manage large "herds" of aphids that feed on roots of plants in the ant colony.

The Yellow Meadow Ant, Lasius flavus, is one of the most common ants in Central Europe, although it also occurs in Asia, North Africa and eastern North America.

In some yellow meadow ant colonies there are two sizes or worker: the smaller ones specialise in larval care and stay in the nest, where they are fed by the larger workers, which presumably do the foraging.

"Anthills produced by the Yellow Meadow ant (Lasius flavus) are a feature of several slopes.