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Green-head ant

Rhytidoponera metallica

Ku linnya: The scientific name metallica refers to the ant's metallic look, which ranges from green to purple.1

Kiruma bwokkaKiruma, naye tekijja kukukolako kabi kanene.

Ensanafu

KibojjaKirya: Katono ku buli kimu

Akabi eri abantu: Kya bulumiKisobola okuluma ddala, naye kumpi tekiba kya kabi kinene.

The green-head ant is a small, shiny ant that lives in Australia. It has a metallic colour that can look green, purple or reddish-violet. It is one of the most widespread insects in Australia, and it can give a painful, venomous sting.1

Kibeera mu

Found in almost every Australian state except Tasmania. Introduced to New Zealand.1

Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya

Awaka

Green-head ants live in deserts, heath, open forests, woodland and urban areas. They are abundant in lawns and gardens in cities. They nest underground below logs, stones, twigs and shrubs, in decayed wooden stumps, and sometimes in termite mounds.1

Obuwanvu

5 mm okutuuka ku 7 mm (0,2 in okutuuka ku 0,3 in)1

Embiro ezisinga

nga 0,12 km/h (0,07 mph)

Ku lukalu, kuteebereza bwokka

Kirya ki?

Green-head ants hunt arthropods and small insects. They also collect sweet substances such as honeydew from sap-sucking insects.1

Ekifaananyi kya Green-head ant — Green-head ant. Ekifaananyi: Jonghyun Park. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

Measures 5 to 7 mm long.1
Metallic colour that varies by region, from green to purple or reddish-violet.1
Hard, heavily armoured body with a single-segmented waist.1
Queens and workers look similar and differ mainly in size. Males are the smallest and look black and dark.1

Kitera okutabulwa ne: Residents of northern Queensland use the name 'green ant' for the green-tree ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), so the two can be confused by name. The name 'green-head ant' is more specific.1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kibojja

Obusagwa buyita mu ggwa lyakyo eribojja.

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

The sting is painful and venomous. It can cause anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction, in people who are sensitive to it.1

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: Kya bulumiKisobola okuluma ddala, naye kumpi tekiba kya kabi kinene.

The sting can cause anaphylactic shock in sensitive people. Ordinary stings are described as painful.1

Bwe kibojja

Naaza era onyogoze ebifo ebibojjeddwa.
Omuntu bw'aba nga tassa bulungi, ng'azimbye mu maaso oba mu mumiro, oba ng'awulira ng'agenda kuzirika, buno bubenje bwa alergy obw'amangu: kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
Bw'emu ekubojja: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Wa mu nsi?

Afirika Asiya Bulaaya Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono Amerika ey'Obukiikaddyo Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

kitono nnyo nti kisobola okutuula ku lwala lwo

Green-head ant kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?

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Kidduka kyenkana wa?

Ekkovu ly'omu nnimiro nga 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Green-head ant nga 0,12 km/h (0,07 mph)

Enfuddu nga 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

kirungi okumanya

Ebituufu

Green-head ants are among the first insects to appear in burnt-off areas, arriving once the embers have stopped smouldering.1

Workers can reproduce with winged males, so queens are rarely produced in colonies.1

They are useful to farmers because they prey on agricultural pests such as beetles, moths and termites.1

They help plants by scattering and eating seeds from a variety of species, which plays an important role in seed dispersal.1

The short-beaked echidna and a number of bird species prey on them.1

The ant was introduced to New Zealand, where it was first seen in 1959, probably on cargoes of timber.1

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: The name 'green ant' always means the green-head ant.

Amazima: In northern Queensland, residents use the name 'green ant' for the green-tree ant, so the shortened name can cause confusion.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi: Rhytidoponera metallica
Ekibinja: Ensanafu
Amaka: Formicidae2
Ensengeka: Hymenoptera
Ssemazinga: Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya
Akabi eri abantu: 2 / 5: Kya bulumi3

Ebituufu we biva

Green-head ant (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Rhytidoponera metallica (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
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