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Green weaver ant

Oecophylla smaragdina

Ka ga leina: 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

Ga e na kotsiGa e na kotsi go batho. Ga go na sepe se o tshwanetseng go tshwenyega ka sone.

Ditshoswane

E a fafatsa kgotsa e a tshwelaE ja: Dikhukhwane

Kotsi go batho: Kotsi e nnyeJaaka go tlhabiwa ke notshe kgotsa go le kwa tlase. Ga e na kotsi go 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 tshela kwa

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

Asia, Australia le Oceania

Gae

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

Boleele

5 mm go ya go 2,5 cm (0,2 in go ya go 1 in)1

Lebelo le le kwa godimo

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

Mo lefatsheng, kakanyo fela

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

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

Tsela ya go e lemoga

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

Maatla a botlhole

E a fafatsa kgotsa e a tshwela

E fafatsa kgotsa e tshwela seedi se se fisang mo go ba ba e tlhaselang.

Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?

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

E kotsi go le kae go batho?

Kotsi go batho: Kotsi e nnyeJaaka go tlhabiwa ke notshe kgotsa go le kwa tlase. Ga e na kotsi go 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 dira eng fa e tshogile?

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

Fa e go fafatsa

Tlhatswa le go tsidifatsa mafelo a a tlhabilweng.
Fa motho a hema ka bothata, sefatlhego kgotsa mometso o ruruga, kgotsa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshoganyetso ya aletshi: leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso.

Ka gale leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Se ke kaelo e e akaretsang ya thuso ya ntlha, ga se kgakololo ya bongaka. Motheo wa thuso ya ntlha

Nna o babalesegile

O se ka wa ama, wa tshwara kgotsa wa tshwenya phologolo ya naga, le fa e le e nnye, le fa e lebega e robetse kgotsa e sule.
E fe sebaka. Fa o kopana le yone, ritibala, boela morago ka bonya mme o e tlogele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yone.
Fa e nngwe e go fafatsa: ritibala, o se ka wa tshikinyega, leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso (112, 000, 911) kgotsa o ye bookelong ka bonako. Gopola gore e ne e lebega jang, setshwantsho se a thusa.

Ga e go batle. E dirisa botlhole jwa yone go tshwara dijo kgotsa go itshireletsa, mme e rata go iphitlha go feta. Go le gontsi ka go nna o babalesegile

Kae mo lefatsheng?

Aforika Asia Yuropa Amerika Bokone Amerika Borwa Australia le Oceania

E kgolo go le kae?

E telele go le kae?

e ka nna boleele jo bo lekanang le jwa kelipi ya pampiri

Green weaver ant e kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?

Ke dipalo fela mo sefetleng sa gago (browser). Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.

E bonako go le kae?

Kgopa ya tshingwana e ka nna 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

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

Khudu e ka nna 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

go botlhokwa go itse

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

Mosenyi wa ditlhamane

Tlhamane: 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

Ya baitseanape ba botlhole

Leina la saense: Oecophylla smaragdina
Setlhopha: Ditshoswane
Lelapa: Formicidae2
Lekoko: Hymenoptera
Dikontinente: Asia, Australia le Oceania
Kotsi go batho: 1 / 5: Kotsi e nnye3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

Oecophylla smaragdina (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Oecophylla smaragdina (iNaturalist): maina le thulaganyo ya mefuta.
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