 Suspected anthropogenic threats that can significantly affect "Nothomyrmecia" include habitat destruction and fragmentation by railway lines, roads and wheat fields.In the town of Ceduna, west of Poochera, local populations of the ant were almost eliminated after the area was bulldozed and burned during the installation of an underground telephone line, although nearby sites had larger populations than those found in the destroyed site.Colonies may not survive tree-clearing, as they depend on overhead canopies to navigate.