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Green weaver ant

Oecophylla smaragdina

Davart il num: 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

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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

Viva en

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

Asia, Australia ed Oceania

Pagina iniziala

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

Lunghezza

5 mm fin 2,5 cm (0,2 in fin 1 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

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

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

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

Foto da Green weaver ant — Green weaver ant. Foto: Geoff Shuetrim. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

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

Forza dal tissi

Sprizza u spida

El sprizza u spida in liquid che piztga sin ses attatgaders.

Tge fa ses tissi?

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

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

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

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

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

Sch'el ta sprizza

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Resta en segirezza

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El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina lindorna da curtin circa 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

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

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

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Fatgs

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

Destructur da mits

Mit: Green weaver ants sting like bees or wasps.

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

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Oecophylla smaragdina
Gruppa: Furmiclas
Famiglia: Formicidae2
Urden: Hymenoptera
Continents: Asia, Australia ed Oceania
Privel per umans: 1 / 5: Lev3

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