Welcome to AntWiki

Antwiki provides a wealth of information on the world's ants. Contributions come from ant experts together with discussions provided by everyone. In addition, data is collated from numerous global databases and integrated with individual taxon pages.

Overview
Ants have an amazing diversity of food requirements, from fungus gardens, brood of other ants, tending homopterans, feeding on eliasomes of seeds, specializing on prey such as termites and swarming on raids to capture a diverse assemblage of arthropods among others. Ants have a wide range of recruitment strategies including individual hunters, group recruitment, tandem foraging, and mass recruitment.
 * Life in a Colony
 * The Life Cycle
 * Feeding: foraging for food, recruitment, nutrition, feeding behavior, special dietsFormica 6954.jpg


 * Nests
 * Ants as Pests
 * Specimen Preparation
 * Collecting Methods

Classification

 * Classification
 * Identification
 * Glossary of Terms
 * Identification keys
 * Extinct Ants

Lists

 * Countries by Region
 * Regional Projects
 * Regional Taxon Lists


 * Subfamilies, Genera, Species, Subspecies
 * All fossils, or fossils by Subfamilies, Genera, Species (or see the Fossil Overview)
 * Links to lists of Ant Names


 * An Antwiki "Table of Contents" based on categories

Development and Testing

 * Main To Do Page
 * Dave's Sandbox
 * Gary's Sandbox

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