Golden-spined Ant, Golden Ant at Bald Hills, NSW
Identification history
| Unidentified | 25 Feb 2019 | JulesPhotographer |
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It was late in the day and these little fellas were really quick, will try to capture again under better conditions. Approx 1.5cm long, very active late afternoon, sunny conditions, tended to jump away if it felt threatened.
2 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
26 Feb 2019
Pretty sure these are the same as the ants Max photographed between Bournda and Tura, which were also very active and hard to get an in focus shot of. Yours is better. Those big spines on the armour-plated looking thorax are distinctive, as well as the hairy golden abdomen. I'd love to know what function the spines serve - quite a few of the larger ants seem to have them.
JulesPhotographer
wrote:
26 Feb 2019
Thanks Jackie! It was such an interesting little critter, took me ages to get a half decent shot of it haha I've loved ants since I was a little tacker, used to watch their ant-ics for ages, day dreaming about what they might be doing or thinking ;-) I have some great footage of various ants, but am on my L plates with Adobe Premiere, hopeful to add some active ants some time in the near future!
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.841492-36.917126
- Places Bald Hills, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 24 Feb 2019 08:28 AM Recorded on
- JulesPhotographer Recorded by
Species information
- Polyrhachis ammon Scientific name
- Golden-spined Ant, Golden Ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 994.83m Recorded at altitude
- 135 images trained Machine learning
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