Meat Ant at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 12 Feb 2023 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
I don't normally report meat ants as they are so common, but this one was dragging the remnants of an ant so thought it more interesting.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.029665-35.240075
- Altitude 629.9m
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 3 Feb 2023 12:49 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- With the remnants of a European bee Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
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
- 623 images trained Machine learning
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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