Meat Ant at Deakin, ACT
Identification history
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 22 Apr 2023 | JonLewis | ||
| Iridomyrmex purpureus | 21 Apr 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Apr 2023 | LisaH |
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User's notes
So many ants, busily tending to the scale insects(?)
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
22 Apr 2023
The ants love a few scale insects, sucking up the honeydew the scale produce as a byproduct of feeding on the tree sap.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.093917-35.327359
- Maps Hughes Grassy Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 21 Apr 2023 05:12 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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
- 582 images trained 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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