Explore Ant Species, Nuptial Flights & Colony Journals
A comprehensive, community-driven resource for ant keepers and enthusiasts. Manage your colonies with photo logs and care notes, look up species distributions, or explore nuptial flights.
Colony Management & Journals
Document the growth of your colonies or follow journal timelines from keepers worldwide.
Track Your Colonies
Sign up for free to record species, colony status, worker census milestones, and running journals with photos.
Community Journal Stream
Browse public journal updates from ant keepers around the globe. Filter by species, genus, or keeper, leave comments, and give likes.
Nuptial Flights
Find out when queens take flight in your region and discover historical field reports.
Nuptial Flight Table
See when ant species normally have their mating flights throughout the year, filtered by month and country.
Flight Reports (Archived Map)
Interactive world map showing archived community flight sightings, weather records, and habitat observations.
Looking for current nuptial flight reports? Check out antflights.com or the iNaturalist Ant Nuptial Flights project.
Ant Database & Tools
Explore rich taxonomy distributions, community food ratings, size comparisons, and rankings.
Taxonomy by Region
Browse which ant species, genera, tribes, and subfamilies naturally occur in any selected world region.
Ant Food Database
What do ants eat? Discover which foods are accepted by specific ant species — rated and reviewed by the community.
Size Comparison
Compare ant species at their true-to-life 1:1 scale side by side. Filter by region, caste (queen, worker, soldier), and size range.
Forbidden Ant Species (EU)
Overview of invasive alien species prohibited from keeping, breeding, transporting, or releasing in the European Union.
Rankings & Top Lists
Rankings of countries with the highest ant biodiversity, largest ant genera, and historical taxonomic authors.
Developer REST API
Programmatic access to species records, distributions, and flight data with OpenAPI / Swagger documentation.