EENY-410: European Fire Ant, Red Ant (suggested common names),Myrmica rubraLinnaeus (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)
Figure 4. Workers of the European fire ant, Myrmica rubra Linnaeus, gathering and protecting various larval instars after the nest was disturbed.
Credit: H.A. Arevalo, University of Maine
