Pheidole sp. (genus)
12 Seed-harvesting ant at Spence, ACT
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| Pheidole sp. (genus) | JonLewis | 22 May 2019 | |
| Unverified | Watermilli | 22 May 2019 |
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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
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
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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- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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- My flagged sightings Featured Watermilli Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Pheidole sp. (genus) Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Insects
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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