12 Seed-harvesting ant at Spence, ACT
Identification history
| Pheidole sp. (genus) | 22 May 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Unverified | 22 May 2019 | Watermilli |
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User's notes
To see if there were several types of ants in the garden, we put a drop of honey and a fragment of chicken on the brick paving, and photo'd the ants that turned up. This is one type.
3 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
23 May 2019
Nice experiment. This is probably the same species as the other pheidole you photographed - this type of ant has small workers and much larger “majors” who do the defence and heavy lifting. Cheers, Jon
MattM
wrote:
15 Feb 2021
That ant looks like it has won multiple maths olympiads, and can recite Pi to a thousand places.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.072315-35.198961
- Places Spence, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 4 Mar 2019 11:36 AM Recorded on
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My flagged sightings Featured Watermilli Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Pheidole sp. (genus) Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Pheidole sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Seed-harvesting ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1141.89m Recorded at altitude
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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
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