Meat Ant at Red Hill, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 9 Aug 2016 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Acacia dealbata | 25 Jun 2016 | RobParnell |
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User's notes
Lerp Insects feeding on Silver Wattle and being tendered by meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus)
2 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
26 Jun 2016
Hi Rob. We will be accepting insect sightings soon, in the next few months. Would you prefer that this sighting be recorded as an insect sighting rather than an acacia?
RobParnell
wrote:
27 Jun 2016
I think it would be better as an insect sighting. (Michael Mulvaney asked me to put it up)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.113073-35.325641
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Red Hill, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 17 Apr 2016 12:00 AM Recorded on
- RobParnell Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) RobParnell Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
Species information
- Iridomyrmex purpureus Scientific name
- Meat Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 963.87m Recorded at altitude
- 623 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
