Unidentified ant at Isaacs, ACT
Identification history
| Formicidae (family) | 17 Mar 2022 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 17 Mar 2022 | Mike |
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User's notes
Tiny ants have built large amount of carton up stem.
4 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
17 Mar 2022
Hi Mike, interesting observation, but I can't ID the ant, sorry - it could be a few, including Doleromyrma and Tapinoma. Regarding the carton, you could be right that the ants built it, but it looks too big and coarse to have been built by these small ants - maybe they just took it over from whatever built it when it was abandoned? Cheers, Jon
Mike
wrote:
17 Mar 2022
Probably Doleromyrma sp. (genus) as found here previously. It did look as though the ants were moving material but I could be mistaken.
JonLewis
wrote:
17 Mar 2022
Interesting - maybe I just haven’t seen this before. There’s so much I don’t know!
Mike
wrote:
17 Mar 2022
I photographed the scale Melanococcus albizziae (Acacia Mealybug) on 11 March so this carton has been built up in the last week. The plant is in a tabletop garden and these are the only ants I have noticed.
Location information
- Places Isaacs, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 17 Mar 2022 09:42 AM Recorded on
- Mike Recorded by
Additional information
- Acacia lanigera Associated plant
- Scale Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Formicidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1327.5m Recorded at altitude
- 247 images trained Machine learning
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