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Western harvester ant

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

O imenu: "Occidentalis" means "of the west", because the ant is characteristic of the interior of the Western United States. "Harvester" refers to its habit of collecting edible seeds.1

Samo boliBoli, a te ne bo resno poškodovala.

Mravlje

PikiJe: Malo vsega

Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

The western harvester ant is a species of ant that lives in the dry deserts and grasslands of the American West and Canada. It gets its name from collecting seeds to eat. It has a painful, venomous sting, and large colonies can damage grazing land.1

Živi v

Deserts and arid grasslands of the American West and Canada, at or below 1,900 m (6,300 ft)1

Severna Amerika

Domov

Deserts and arid grasslands. Its nest mounds of gravel, surrounded by bare ground, are a conspicuous feature of rangeland, so people are most likely to see them there.1

Dolžina

6 mm (0,2 in)1

Največja hitrost

približno 0,15 km/h (0,09 mph)

Na kopnem, groba ocena

Kaj je?

Workers harvest seeds and pollen directly from plants and gather fallen seeds. They also gather newly dead insects. Some seeds are stored in chambers within the nest.1

Fotografija: Western harvester ant — Western harvester ant. Fotografija: Ken-ichi Ueda. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Kako jo prepoznaš

Workers are usually dark red.1
Workers in a mature colony average 6 mm long.1
The nest is topped by an irregularly conical mound of gravel, which can be more than 89 cm (35 in) across.1
The mound is surrounded by an area with no plant life.1

Moč strupa

Piki

Strup pride ven skozi želo.

Kaj naredi njen strup, ko ugrizne ali piči?

The sting is venomous and painful.1

Kako nevarna je za ljudi?

Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

Its sting is painful. Where there are many colonies, they can cause such loss of grazing plants and seeds that they are a severe ecological and economic burden.1

Če piči

Pike umij in ohladi.
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Vedno najprej pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911). To so splošna navodila za prvo pomoč, ne zdravniški nasvet. Osnove prve pomoči

Ostani varen

Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
Če te piči: ostani miren, ne premikaj se, pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911) ali hitro pojdi v bolnišnico. Zapomni si, kako je izgledala, fotografija pomaga.

Ne preži nate. Strup uporablja, da ulovi hrano ali se zaščiti, in se veliko raje skrije. Več o varnosti

Kje na svetu?

Afrika Azija Evropa Severna Amerika Južna Amerika Avstralija in Oceanija

Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

tako majhna, da bi sedela na tvojem nohtu

Kakšne velikosti je Western harvester ant v primerjavi s TABO?

Samo matematika v tvojem brskalniku. Nič se ne shrani in nič se nikamor ne pošlje.

Kako hitra je?

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

Western harvester ant približno 0,15 km/h (0,09 mph)

Želva približno 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

vredno vedeti

Dejstva

Mounds are surrounded by bare ground, so they do not burn during fires.1

A mature colony can have up to 20,000 workers and one queen, and its nest can reach 5 metres (16 ft) deep.1

Honey ants (Myrmecocystus mexicanus) often nest close to western harvester ant colonies and feed on dead or dying workers.1

A queen mates with 2 to 11 different males, with an average of 6.3.1

Workers usually change their jobs as they age, and they forage towards the ends of their lives. A worker lives for an average of six months.1

In cooler months, workers forage throughout the day. In summer they forage only from 5–11 am and 3–9 pm.1

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime: Pogonomyrmex occidentalis
Skupina: Mravlje
Družina: Formicidae2
Red: Hymenoptera
Celine: Severna Amerika
Mladiči: The queen lays eggs, and many of the eggs in the first batch die. The first workers, called nanitics, are stunted and measure about 2 mm long.1
Življenjska doba: približno 30 let1
Nevarnost za ljudi: 2 / 5: Boleče3

Od kod so dejstva

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
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