Muscleman tree ant at Bruce, ACT
Identification history
| Podomyrma gratiosa | 31 Oct 2020 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Podomyrma gratiosa | 31 Oct 2020 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Photo 1, they seemed to be trying to attack a cone moth. The caterpillar escaped. I later saw it climbing further up the tree. See later sighting. Their nest must have been further up the tree as (photo 4) they were taking food up the tree rather than down.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.089883-35.248322
- Altitude 615.3m
- Maps Gossan Hill Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
- Places Bruce, ACT
Sighting information
- 36 Abundance
- 29 Oct 2020 12:10 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Eucalyptus Associated plant
- Cone moth as potential prey. Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
Species information
- Podomyrma gratiosa Scientific name
- Muscleman tree ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 834.88m Recorded at altitude
- 128 images trained Machine learning
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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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