Meat Ant at O'Malley, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 9 Dec 2022 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Unidentified | 9 Dec 2022 | Mike |
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2 comments
Mike
wrote:
9 Dec 2022
These were almost stationary, with bodies lifted high off the ground and seemed to be facing off in pairs. Is this social or aggressive behaviour?
JonLewis
wrote:
12 Dec 2022
Hi Mike, these ants are doing "ritualised fighting" a territorial display in which the ants try to work out where the boundary between two different Meat ant colony territories is, without actually having to fight each other. There is interesting information on this at the link below. Cheers, Jon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_ant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_ant
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.120239-35.349490
- Altitude 700.2m
- Maps Mount Mugga Mugga
- Places O'Malley, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 9 Dec 2022 02:45 PM Recorded on
- Mike Recorded by
Species information
- Iridomyrmex purpureus Scientific name
- Meat Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 963.87m Recorded at altitude
- 502 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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