1 Meat Ant at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 20 Mar 2020 | JonLewis | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 19 Mar 2020 | JackyF |
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User's notes
Tending leafhoppers, mostly black-and-white striped ones with orange, but also paler more yellowish ones (photo 2).
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.099940-35.327346
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 19 Mar 2020 06:10 PM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) JackyF
Additional information
- Blakely's red gum sapling Associated plant
- leafhoppers Associated Insect
- 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
- 602 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- 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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