What is Meat ant?
[[File: Meat eater ant feeding on honey.jpg|thumbnail|Meat eater ant]] {{Taxobox | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | ordo = [[Hymenoptera]] | familia = [[Formicidae]] | genus = ''[[Iridomyrex]]'' | species = '''''I. purpureus''''' }} The '''meat ant''' (''[[Iridomyrmex]] purpureus''), also called the '''meat-eater ant''', is a [[species]] of [[ant]] found all around [[Australia]]. The ants are often used by farmers to clean the remaining meat off [[Carcass|dead animals]]. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Ants]]