Meat Ant at Monash, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 14 Jan 2020 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 14 Jan 2020 | Christine |
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About 1cm in length. There was a nest at each end of the bridge, and a continuous stream of ants going in both directions the length of the bridge.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.082666-35.420597
- Maps Isabella Pond Tuggeranong Creek to Monash Grassland
- Places Monash, ACT
Sighting information
- 1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
- 12 Jan 2020 05:26 PM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Christine 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
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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