Formica ulkei
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Formica ulkei is a species of ant in the family Formicidae. Carlo Emery described the species in 1893, and named it after Titus Ulke, a mineralogist who collected ants and beetles while employed by a mining company in South Dakota. Ulke sent specimens to his father, Henry Ulke, who passed the ant samples to Theodore Pergande, who in turn sent them to Emery. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elk Island National Park | 🇨🇦 Canada |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toronto | 🇨🇦 Canada |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Ulke's Mound Ant sighting in Elk Island National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 65th most-seen of the 112 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Ulke's Mound Ant in Elk Island National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July, September and November–April, the lowest months. Those are among Elk Island National Park's wettest months, with about 70 mm of rain a month against 20 mm in December.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Ulke's Mound Ant sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Elk Island National Park, in our data
Elk Island National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Ulke's Mound Ant sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hymenoptera
The closest relatives of the Ulke's Mound Ant that you can see in Elk Island National Park (order Hymenoptera, Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies) are Tricolored Bumble Bee (about 30%), Spiny Leaf Gall Wasp (about 20%) and Common Aerial Yellowjacket (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ulke's Mound Ant is recorded against all the insects logged in Elk Island National Park (8 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
