Meat Ant at Chifley, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 3 Dec 2018 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 2 Dec 2018 | Christine |
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User's notes
Found when looking for evidence of Hairstreak breeding, but these ants were much larger than the ones we were looking for. Not sure what they are tending.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.069906-35.366247
- Maps Mount Taylor
- Places Chifley, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 2 Dec 2018 09:46 AM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Christine Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
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
- 641 images trained Machine learning
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