Brown house ant at Isaacs, ACT
Identification history
| Doleromyrma sp. (genus) | 22 Jan 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Doleromyrma sp. (genus) | 22 Jan 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Linepithema humile | 6 Jan 2019 | Mike |
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Trail of invasive ants. They eat ham, cat food and Christmas cake.
6 comments
Mike
wrote:
6 Jan 2019
I have always called these Argentine ants, Iridomyrmex humilis. They have returned this Christmas so I thought I should add this old sighting.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
8 Jan 2019
Jon - how widespread is this invasive ant in our region. Should we be trying to eradicate it. There is only one other ACT record of this ant in the Atlas of Living Australia - but the ANIC ant data has yet to be added into the database
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
9 Jan 2019
Mike it appears you have had these ants before - did you get in contact with anybody from the ACT Government? Are you aware of them elsewhere?
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
9 Jan 2019
So far the only other ACT records I can get for the Argentine ant are a 1997 record from Philip and an 1981 record from Waramanga
Mike
wrote:
10 Jan 2019
I thought they were fairly common so didn't report them earlier. According to Canberra Pest Control https://canberrapestcontrol.com.au/pests/ant-control-exterminator/ "Of the 1,300 species of ants found in Australia, the 6 most common in the Canberra area are the white footed house ant, black house ant, bull ant, banded sugar ant, meat ant and Argentine ant." We haven't had spider/insect treatment around our house for years but maybe it's time.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
10 Jan 2019
Thanks Mike - I am trying to chase down the veracity of the information on the website - it doesn't tally with the recorded or collected occurrence
Location information
- Coordinates 149.115763-35.373686
- Places Isaacs, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 25 Jan 2017 10:00 AM Recorded on
- Mike Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Mike Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Less than 5mm Animal size
Species information
- Doleromyrma sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Brown house ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 712m 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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