Meat Ant at Mongarlowe, NSW
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 3 Jun 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Camponotus sp. (genus) | 2 Jun 2019 | LisaH |
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User's notes
I'm guessing this is a sugar ant? I found this an interesting site, as the track in the second photo is made by the ants for the ants, and has been there for years.
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
3 Jun 2019
Hi Lisa, this is a meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus. It Is pretty big, like a sugar ant, but you can see in the third photo the red and purple colours on it. Meat ants are very good at building highways to help them travel quickly between nests or to go out foraging for food. Cheers, Jon
Location information
- Coordinates 149.966549-35.417836
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Mongarlowe, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 2 Jun 2019 05:28 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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
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