Meat Ant at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 1 Dec 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 30 Nov 2019 | BIrdsinCanberra |
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This Meat Ant appeared to be taking a dead Sugar Ant back to the colony.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.100198-35.327307
- Altitude 625.4m
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 24 Nov 2019 07:36 AM Recorded on
- BIrdsinCanberra Recorded by
Additional information
- Sugar Ant Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Iridomyrmex purpureus Scientific name
- Meat Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 963.87m Recorded at altitude
- 480 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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