Bull ant or Bulldog ant at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Myrmecia tarsata | 21 Dec 2023 | JonLewis | ||
| Myrmecia sp. (genus) | 21 Dec 2023 | JonLewis | ||
| Myrmecia tarsata | 21 Dec 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Myrmecia sp. (genus) | 21 Dec 2023 | Csteele4 |
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User's notes
Such angry little critters! Got stung by one on my first day back from Ireland. What a great welcome back...
3 comments
Csteele4
wrote:
21 Dec 2023
@JonLewis it sure did! Throbbed for a couple of days, and I have a little brown mark there still where the sting was!
JonLewis
wrote:
21 Dec 2023
Just looked at your comment and realised I’d pressed the wrong button - your ID was right.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.443900-35.608063
- Altitude 946.0m
- Places Captains Flat, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Dec 2023 12:48 PM Recorded on
- Csteele4 Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Additional information
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- False Pollinator Insect on Flower
Species information
- Myrmecia tarsata Scientific name
- Bull ant or Bulldog ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1109m Recorded at altitude
- 124 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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