Ant at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex sp. (genus) | 21 Jan 2024 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Jan 2024 | arjay |
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User's notes
Maybe an ant. It was digging a hole and eventually vanished covering the hole with the disturbed earth.
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
21 Jan 2024
Well spotted - an Iridomyrmex queen, newly mated and digging a nest to begin her life as the founder of a new ant colony.
arjay
wrote:
21 Jan 2024
I was really pleased to see this because we often see small patches of disturbed earth and sometimes it is beetles or crickets excavating but this time it wasn't.
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Charleys Forest, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Oct 2021 06:44 PM Recorded on
- arjay Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) arjay
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Iridomyrmex sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 817.2m Recorded at altitude
- 324 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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