The Yellow Meadow Ant is known for creating anthills in grassland habitats. They build their distinctive soil domes above their nests and there are some great examples in Clayton Meadow.
#ants #meadows #anthills #grasslands #habitat #conservation #nature

Female #Adonis, down in undergrowth on #NewtimberHill, probably mated, her eggs developing or looking for the foodplant, Horseshoe vetch, so to lay them under its tiny leaflets.
This #butterfly is strongly associated w old #chalkgrassland w #anthills.
Nature needs her chalk lands returned to her!

Some habitat shots from the New Forest last weekend, including the best #anthills I’ve ever laid eyes on

Eurasian jay

Today is day 20 of #30DaysWild and it's about #birds . The humans met this wonderful #EurasianJay
Our humans say they are cheeky🙀 we like that😹 Did you know that they visit #anthills to get their #feathers free of parasites by the #ForamicAcid 🙀 Pawsome
#birding #nature #jay

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Five effective ways to naturally eliminate #anthills in your home or garden 🐜

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A lovely #AntHill garden on Farthing Downs featuring Common Rockrose, Helianthemum nummularium, and surrounded by Salad Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba. #AntHills #AntGarden

Some more ant hill gardens for @haggewoods.bsky.social and @waxcapscooch.bsky.social. These ones on Mitcham Common feature Creeping Cinquefoil and Lesser Stitchwort. #anthills

Annual rich turf on an ant hill. Other species present include: Linum radiola, Moenchia erecta, Trifolium striatum, dubium, campestre, ornithopodioides, Ornithopus perpusillus, Lysimachia arvensis, Aira caryophyllea & Riccia sp. probably bifurca.

Twin-headed Clover (Trifolium bocconei)

Spot the rarities! Twin-headed Clover and Dwarf Rush present in this photo

Inspired by the #anthills movement @waxcapscooch.bsky.social. I found this amazing ant hill at Kynance, Cornwall a couple of years back with three national rarities growing on it (Twin-headed Clover, Dwarf Rush and Land Quillwort) amongst a community of annuals and other threatened/scarce taxa.

Huge anthills, probably very old too

Thanks to @naturelark.bsky.social for posting up #anthills I’d like to see more pics but I’m particularly interested in the plant communities (also fungi) that can occur on these mounds of ant magic! Ecologically, anthills in grasslands = diversity. They are also reliant on grazing. Much to say✔️

Fantastic! Yes, lets try and make #anthills a thing!

I think there needs to be a picture thread of #anthills. Mini #biodiversity hotspots. Love the pic, here’s one for the record from Malvern Common.

#Anthills and #animaltracks.
#Patterns on a #chalkhill.
#DevilsDyke.
#Sussex.

It was cold cold cold today on my favourite hill where a beautiful #Hairyviolet was out on the south side of one of the many #anthills that provided a slightly warmer & more fertile .. rabbits 🙄 .. place to grow.
Lovely to be back!
#NewtimberHill #Chalkgrassland #Chalklandflora

#chaljgrassland #anthills #theyellowmeadowant #lasiusflavus #arechalkgrasslandarerare #nature #ants

Here’s my favourite meadow anthill again, now clad in crosswort with complementing primrose and lesser celendine #anthills