Meat Ant at Yarralumla, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 18 Jan 2022 | JonLewis | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 18 Jan 2022 | ConBoekel |
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User's notes
Elsewhere meat ants leave grains of sand on the surface of their mounds. In this clay soil they left small pieces of twig. They keep the surface tidy but they appear to want to have an even layer of either sand grains of small pieces of wood to break the surface.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.111012-35.298573
- Altitude 529.7m
- Maps Lake Burley Griffin West Blue Gum Point to Attunga Bay
- Places Yarralumla, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 16 Jan 2022 08:26 AM Recorded on
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) ConBoekel 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
- 623 images trained Machine learning
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