Blue ant, Bluebottle ant at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
Identification history
| Diamma bicolor | 11 Jan 2025 | SimoneC | ||
| Diamma bicolor | 11 Jan 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Unidentified | 11 Jan 2025 | JimL |
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Moved like an Any but appendages dont seem correct. Never seen any Any move this fast either. crazy colours!
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WendyEM
wrote:
11 Jan 2025
wingless female flower wasp called "Blue Ant" https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/blue-ant/
Location information
- Coordinates 148.993606-35.730072
- Altitude 965.7m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Rendezvous Creek, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 11 Jan 2025 12:13 PM Recorded on
- JimL Recorded by
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Collections
JimL NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Flower wasps (Scoliidae & Tiphiidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Diamma bicolor Scientific name
- Blue ant, Bluebottle ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1272.7m Recorded at altitude
- 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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