Mike Dilger’s WILDLIFE SPECTACLES
The broadcaster, naturalist and tour guide shares the most breathtaking seasonal events in Britain
BRITAIN’S ANT FAUNA OF ABOUT 50 species is impoverished when compared to that of the tropics, with the famous biologist and ant expert E O Wilson once stating he could find as many species of ant on a single tree in the Peruvian Amazon as exist in the whole of the UK. However, what we lack in quantity we certainly make up for in quality, with wood ants surely the most charismatic of this instantly recognised but poorly understood group of social insects.
Of the six species of Britishknow which wood ant species you’re trying to identify is to consider its location.
