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Flying Ant Diet

To: <>, "michael wood" <>
Subject: Flying Ant Diet
From: "Greg & Val Clancy" <>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:51:05 +1100
The tree appears to be a Red Kamala Mallotus philippensis and the insects look like Honey Bees to me. HANZAB states that Figbirds will feed aerially on insects but Satin Bowerbirds were observed to sally or glean from leaves, branches etc. but aerial feeding is not mentioned.

Greg Clancy
Ecologist
Coutts Crossing NSW





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