Meat Ant at Dickson, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 13 Oct 2024 | SimonDunstan | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 13 Oct 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 13 Oct 2024 | Hejor1 |
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1 comment
JonLewis
wrote:
14 Oct 2024
Hi Hejor, these are nice photos of the ants doing ritualised fighting, where they try to settle disputes without anyone getting hurt. You will find a section on ritualised fighting in the wikipedia page for this ant. Cheers, Jon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_ant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_ant
Location information
- Coordinates 149.134081-35.252567
- Altitude 575.8m
- Maps City Renewal Authority Area
- Places Dickson, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 13 Oct 2024 03:09 PM Recorded on
- Hejor1 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Hejor1 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
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