EENY-410: European Fire Ant, Red Ant (suggested common names),Myrmica rubraLinnaeus (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)
Figure 2. Adult worker of the European fire ant, Myrmica rubra Linnaeus. Notice the sting, the two-segmented "waist" and the two spines on the propodeum.
Credit: E. Groden, University of Maine
