Ants of the World
Every ant tells a story. AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
These tools have been developed to encourage the study of ants, to
facilitate the use of ants in inventory and monitoring programs, and
to provide ant taxonomists with access to images of type specimens.
Currently AntWeb contains information on the ant faunas of several areas in the Nearctic and Malagasy biogeographic regions, and global coverage of all ant genera.
Antweb is funded from private donations and from grants from the National Science Foundation, DEB-0344731 and EF-0431330.
Bay Area Ants Survey
The 11-county Bay Area is home to more 100 distinct types of ant species. Visit
AntWeb's Bay Area Ant Survey to find out how to become a Citizen Naturalist and help discover and document the native and invasive ants in the Bay Area.
Learn about the ants in your backyard, schools and local Bay Area parks.
Enroll in Ant Course
Ant Course is a workshop designed primarily for systematists, ecologists, behaviorists ...
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Users of Google Earth can now plot all the ants known to AntWeb on a 3-dimensional interactive globe of satellite images. Learn more about
putting AntWeb on Google Earth.
Many curators already contribute to AntWeb - would you like to join us? Curators can edit the home page of the geographic section they curate, upload specimen data and authority files, and control a number of other aspects of their project. If you would like to join us, contact us at -
antweb@calacademy.org.
We at AntWeb have been busy taking photos of many of the world's great ant collections. Visit the Antweb
World Ant Collection to see the collections and get information about where they are housed.
number of extant vaild taxa: 13953
number of types imaged: 686
number of species imaged: 3878
number of specimens: 149845
number of specimens imaged: 8712
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