red ant

Description:

The Red Ant is one of the commonest and there are eight species of them here - the one pictured above is probably Myrmica ruginodis. Colonies of 100 to 300 can be found under stones and paving or sometimes rotting tree trunks, in most gardens. Their sting is the piercing type and can be painful.

Habitat:

on your back yard's trees, in the forest.

Notes:

found it near the canal in school while i e\was walking to the garden