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Green weaver ant

Oecophylla smaragdina

Ku linnya: The genus name Oecophylla comes from Greek and means "leaf-house". The species name smaragdina is Latin for "emerald", after the greenish-brown queens.1

Tekirina kabiTekirina kabi eri abantu. Tewali kya kweraliikirira.

Ensanafu

Kifuuyira oba kiwandaKirya: Ebiwuka

Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.

The green weaver ant is a tree-dwelling ant that builds its nests by stitching leaves together with silk. It lives in the warm, wet forests of tropical Asia and northern Australia. It has a painful bite and can spray irritant chemicals, so it is best watched from a distance.1

Kibeera mu

Tropical Asia, from India through Indonesia and the Philippines, and Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia1

Asiya, Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya

Awaka

It is arboreal, so it lives in the leaves of trees in humid tropical regions. Colonies can have several nests in one tree or spread across neighbouring trees. People may meet it in fruit and nut trees, and on crops such as coconut, cocoa, coffee and citrus.1

Obuwanvu

5 mm okutuuka ku 2,5 cm (0,2 in okutuuka ku 1 in)1

Embiro ezisinga

nga 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Ku lukalu, kuteebereza bwokka

Kirya ki?

It feeds on insects and other invertebrates, mainly beetles, flies and hymenopterans. It also tends aphids and scale insects to feed on the honeydew they produce.1

Ekifaananyi kya Green weaver ant — Green weaver ant. Ekifaananyi: Geoff Shuetrim. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

Workers and major workers are mostly orange.1
Workers are 5–7 mm long.1
Major workers are 8–10 mm long, with long, strong legs and large mandibles.1
Queens are 20–25 mm long and normally greenish-brown.1
Nests are made of leaves stitched together with silk, often high in the canopy.1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kifuuyira oba kiwanda

Kifuuyira oba kiwanda amazzi agookya ng'okubojja ku abo abakirumba.

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

The ant does not sting. Its bite is painful, and it can also secrete irritant chemicals from its abdomen.1

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.

The ants are aggressive towards people. In Sri Lanka, protecting coffee crops with these ants was abandoned because picking the crop proved too painful.1

Kikola ki nga kitidde?

When threatened, workers gather in local clusters against intruders, and if the threat continues, the colony mobilises in larger numbers.1

Bwe kikufuuyira

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 ekufuuyira: 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?

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Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

kiwanvu nga pepa kiripu

Green weaver 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 weaver ant nga 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

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

kirungi okumanya

Ebituufu

Weaver ants build leaf nests by teamwork. Workers pull leaf edges together, and others use larvae like living shuttles to make silk that binds the leaves.1

A single colony can reach up to half a million individuals, and one colony was recorded occupying 151 nests across 12 trees.1

Some jumping spiders mimic these ants with chemical scents to enter their nests and eat the larvae.1

In Thailand and the Philippines, the larvae and pupae are eaten, and are said to taste creamy, sour and lemony.1

The oldest written record of using these ants for pest control is from China in 304 CE, where they protected citrus.1

In Java, Indonesia, the larvae and pupae, called kroto, are harvested as food for songbirds and as fishing bait.1

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: Green weaver ants sting like bees or wasps.

Amazima: They do not sting. Their bite can be painful, and they can spray irritant chemicals from the abdomen.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi: Oecophylla smaragdina
Ekibinja: Ensanafu
Amaka: Formicidae2
Ensengeka: Hymenoptera
Ssemazinga: Asiya, Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya
Akabi eri abantu: 1 / 5: Kitono3

Ebituufu we biva

Oecophylla smaragdina (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Oecophylla smaragdina (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
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