Smooth Epaulet Ant at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Notoncus gilberti | 11 Aug 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Notoncus gilberti | 11 Aug 2019 | TimL |
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User's notes
Approximately 20 of these ants were sighted on the tree but there was no obvious trail of ants back to a nest.
3 comments
TimL
wrote:
12 Aug 2019
Hi Jon. I think the ants were attracted to sap leaking from the tree bark. At the top of the second image there is a dark patch on the bark which had sap leaking from it, and in the final image the bark around the ants is clearly wet. These are just a few images taken from a larger sequence of images. Other images in the sequence show the ants attending to the dark patches and wet patches of bark.
Tim
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.104987-35.277103
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 7 Aug 2019 01:18 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Notoncus gilberti Scientific name
- Smooth Epaulet Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-Invasive
- 804.4m Recorded at altitude
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