AntWorld.org

An open-source project for ant identification and information.

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Georges Ruiz

Student in Master Biologie in Bochum and Essen University, creator of this website, actual webmaster
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Building the site, design html5 and css3, coding in javascript and php and all that uninteresting stuff...

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Image Credits

Ant specimen photographs throughout this website come from several sources. Each image links to its original source.

AntWeb.org

AntWeb.org - the world's largest online database of ant images and specimen records.
Images shared under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photographers include: April Nobile, Will Ericson, Erin Prado, Shannon Hartman, and many other contributors at the California Academy of Sciences.

Japanese Ant Database (JAD)

Japanese Ant Database (Ant Image Database Project, Japan).
High-quality specimen photographs and drawings of Japanese ant species.

ML Training Data Sources

Our ant identification model is trained using specimen photographs from the following sources. We gratefully acknowledge these contributors:

AntWeb.org

AntWeb.org - California Academy of Sciences
44 species, 15 subfamilies, 1,429 specimen images
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Photographers: April Nobile, Will Ericson, Erin Prado, Shannon Hartman, and contributors

Alexander Wild Photography

Alex Wild Public Domain Collection
8 ant species images released to public domain
License: Public Domain (no restrictions)

Japanese Ant Database (JAD)

Japanese Ant Database (JADG)
Permission pending

Usage Policy: Training images are used solely for neural network training. Original images are not displayed or redistributed on this website.

Open Source: Our identification model and code are available on GitHub. Full source attribution is maintained in our training data metadata.

Data Sources

Species counts and distribution data from:
- AntWiki - The Ant Encyclopedia
- AntMaps.org - Economo Lab, OIST
- AntKeeping.info
- Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World