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Green weaver ant

Oecophylla smaragdina

Ka lebitso: 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

Ha e na kotsiHa e na kotsi ho batho. Ha ho letho la ho tshwenyeha.

Bohlwa

E a fafatsa kapa e a tshwelaE ja: Dikokoanyana

Kotsi ho batho: E bobebeJwaloka ho hlajwa ke notshi kapa ho fetang moo. Ha e na kotsi ho batho.

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

E phela

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

Asia, Australia le Oceania

Lapeng

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

Bolelele

5 mm ho isa ho 2,5 cm (0,2 in ho isa ho 1 in)1

Lebelo le phahameng

e ka bang 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Naheng, kakanyo feela

E ja eng?

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

Ho e tseba jwang

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

Matla a chefo

E a fafatsa kapa e a tshwela

E fafatsa kapa e tshwela mokedikedi o hlabang ho ba e hlaselang.

Chefo ya yona (eo e e kenyang ka ho loma kapa ho hlaba) e etsang?

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

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E bobebeJwaloka ho hlajwa ke notshi kapa ho fetang moo. Ha e na kotsi ho batho.

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

E etsang ha e tshohile?

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

Haeba e o fafatsa

Hlatswa moo e hlabileng teng mme o pholise.
Haeba motho a hema ka thata, sefahleho kapa qoqotho di ruruha, kapa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshohanyetso ya aletjhi (allergy): letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso.

Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele

Dula o bolokehile

O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
Haeba e nngwe e o fafatsa: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.

Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile

Hokae lefatsheng?

Afrika Asia Yuropa Amerika Leboya Amerika Borwa Australia le Oceania

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

e telele jwaloka klipi ya pampiri

Green weaver ant e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?

Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.

E potlaka hakae?

Kgofu ya serapeng e ka bang 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Green weaver ant e ka bang 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Kgudu e ka bang 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

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

Ho senya ditshomo

Tshomo: Green weaver ants sting like bees or wasps.

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

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense: Oecophylla smaragdina
Sehlopha: Bohlwa
Lelapa: Formicidae2
Tatelano: Hymenoptera
Dikontinente: Asia, Australia le Oceania
Kotsi ho batho: 1 / 5: E bobebe3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

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