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Green weaver ant

Oecophylla smaragdina

O imenu: 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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Mravlje

Brizga ali pljuvaJe: Žuželke

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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

Živi v

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

Azija, Avstralija in Oceanija

Domov

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

Dolžina

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

Največja hitrost

približno 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Na kopnem, groba ocena

Kaj je?

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

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

Kako jo prepoznaš

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

Moč strupa

Brizga ali pljuva

Na napadalce brizga ali pljuva pekočo tekočino.

Kaj naredi njen strup, ko ugrizne ali piči?

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

Kako nevarna je za ljudi?

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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

Kaj naredi, ko se prestraši?

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

Če te poškropi

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Ostani varen

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Kje na svetu?

Afrika Azija Evropa Severna Amerika Južna Amerika Avstralija in Oceanija

Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

približno tako dolga kot sponka za papir

Kakšne velikosti je Green weaver ant v primerjavi s TABO?

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Kako hitra je?

Vrtni polž približno 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

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

Želva približno 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

vredno vedeti

Dejstva

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

Razbijalec mitov

Mit: Green weaver ants sting like bees or wasps.

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

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime: Oecophylla smaragdina
Skupina: Mravlje
Družina: Formicidae2
Red: Hymenoptera
Celine: Azija, Avstralija in Oceanija
Nevarnost za ljudi: 1 / 5: Blaga3

Od kod so dejstva

Oecophylla smaragdina (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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