Meat Ant at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 12 Oct 2024 | SimonPDunstan | ||
| Iridomyrmex sp. (genus) | 11 Feb 2020 | JonLewis | ||
| Camponotus sp. (genus) | 11 Feb 2020 | CathB |
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User's notes
Quite a few of these wandering around, but this one was digging a nest. The small hole on the left belongs to a Meranoplus which is shown in an accompanying sighting (4249724)
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
12 Feb 2020
Hi Cath, great photos. It's large size and general shape make it look quite like a Camponotus, but I'm pretty sure it's Iridomyrmex, probably Iridomyrmex purpureus - there were hundreds of them streaming out of nests yesterday afternoon at our place. Cheers, Jon
CathB
wrote:
12 Feb 2020
Thanks Jon. There were certainly plenty of meat ants around! I also saw several large ants, possibly the same thing, that were missing their gasters. I was wondering what might be preying on them.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.074644-35.269818
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 10 Feb 2020 06:07 PM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) CathB
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Female Gender
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
- 589 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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