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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Meat Ant

Iridomyrmex purpureus

About

A large iridescent blue-black ant that is one of Australia's most dominant and ecologically important ant species. It builds large gravel-covered mound nests in open areas.

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Did You Know?

Aboriginal Australians traditionally placed deceased on meat ant nests to allow the ants to clean the bones for burial rituals.