Meat Ant at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 6 Dec 2020 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 5 Dec 2020 | JackyF |
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User's notes
Meat ants tending Stencilled Hairstreak caterpillar and pupae in different areas of wattle, Stencilled Hairstreaks added as separate sighting.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.102508-35.329069
- Altitude 648.4m
- Maps Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Federal Golf Course
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 50 Abundance
- 5 Dec 2020 12:20 PM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
Additional information
- Wattle Associated plant
- Stencilled Hairstreak Butterfly caterpillars and pupae 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
- 484 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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