Unidentified ant at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Formicidae (family) | 28 May 2024 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 28 May 2024 | Tammy |
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Would like to know what these ants are doing and what the eggs are.
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
28 May 2024
Hi Tammy, I can’t ID the ants from this photo, but they are probably a species of Iridomyrmex. The “eggs” are actually scale insects which suck sap from the plant for their nutrition, but also produce a sugary waste liquid (“honeydew”) which the ants collect as food. Cheers, Jon
Location information
- Coordinates 149.073541-35.262297
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 30 Abundance
- 1 May 2024 02:19 PM Recorded on
- Tammy Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Tammy Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Wattle? Associated plant
- The ants were tending to eggs of some sort. Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Formicidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1327.5m Recorded at altitude
- 451 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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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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