Formica rufa
Red Wood Ant
- Category
- invertebrate
- Primary role
- neutral
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Formica
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Hymenoptera | Formicidae | Formica
External: GBIF #1315132
0 AI-consensus-verified claims .
No verified claims involving this entity yet.
Genus-level evidence
1 claim where the source named the organism only at the genus or collective level (e.g. Formica sp.) and did not determine the species. Listed separately because they apply to the genus, not specifically to Formica rufa.
- mutualism · Formica spp. → Aphididae (family) · effect: beneficial
“attracting ants that sometimes care for and defend the aphids from predators”
Aggregated via GloBI — not independently verified by AgroEco.
biocontrol 2
- GloBI preysOn Abraxas sylvata https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32897856
- GloBI eats Phyllopertha horticola https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170152672
pollination 7
- GloBI pollinates Salix repens Poelen, J. H. Global Biotic Interactions: Interpreted Data Products. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5708970 (2021). DOI
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131483682
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104589240
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131483981
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102025809
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102025667
- GloBI visitsFlowersOf Vaccinium vitis-idaea M. Devoto et al., 2012. Understanding and planning ecological restoration of plantpollinator networks. Ecology Letters, 15. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01740.x DOI
attractant 7
- GloBI pollinates Salix repens Poelen, J. H. Global Biotic Interactions: Interpreted Data Products. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5708970 (2021). DOI
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131483682
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104589240
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131483981
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102025809
- GloBI interactsWith Formica rufa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102025667
- GloBI visitsFlowersOf Vaccinium vitis-idaea M. Devoto et al., 2012. Understanding and planning ecological restoration of plantpollinator networks. Ecology Letters, 15. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01740.x DOI
biocontrol 2
- GloBI preysOn Abraxas sylvata https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32897856
- GloBI eats Phyllopertha horticola https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170152672