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Western harvester ant

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Ka lebitso: "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

E utlwisa bohloko feelaE a utlwisa bohloko, empa e ke ke ya o lematsa haholo.

Bohlwa

Ho hlabaE ja: Hanyane ka tsohle

Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

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

E phela

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

Amerika Leboya

Lapeng

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

Bolelele

6 mm (0,2 in)1

Lebelo le phahameng

e ka bang 0,15 km/h (0,09 mph)

Naheng, kakanyo feela

E ja eng?

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

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

Ho e tseba jwang

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

Matla a chefo

Ho hlaba

Chefo e tswa ka lemao le hlabang.

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

The sting is venomous and painful.1

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

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

Haeba e hlaba

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 hlaba: 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 nyenyane hoo e ka dulang lenalong la hao

Western harvester 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)

Western harvester ant e ka bang 0,15 km/h (0,09 mph)

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

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

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

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense: Pogonomyrmex occidentalis
Sehlopha: Bohlwa
Lelapa: Formicidae2
Tatelano: Hymenoptera
Dikontinente: Amerika Leboya
Masea: 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
Nako ya bophelo: e ka bang dilemo tse 301
Kotsi ho batho: 2 / 5: E bohloko3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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