Meat Ant at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 22 Oct 2018 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Oct 2018 | KMcCue |
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User's notes
The ants were feeding on sugars exuded from the nymphs (?) they were protecting
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KMcCue
wrote:
23 Oct 2018
Many thanks - the ants were very busy, the leaf hoppers tried valiantly to keep out of our sight behind the branch.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.990746-35.743835
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Rendezvous Creek, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 15 Oct 2018 10:23 AM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
Species information
- Iridomyrmex purpureus Scientific name
- Meat Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 963.87m Recorded at altitude
- 480 images trained Machine learning
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