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Green weaver ant

Oecophylla smaragdina
Ci turam: 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
Amul lorAmul lor ci nit. Amul lu la war a jaaxal.
Fourmi yi Dafay xëpp walla tuufDafay lekk: Gunóor
Musiba ci nit: WoyofNi jamu yamb walla lu ko yées. Lu jege, amul lor ci nit.

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

Dafay dund ci
Tropical Asia, from India through Indonesia and the Philippines, and Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia1
Asi, Ostarali ak Oseyani
Kër
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
Guddaay
5 mm ba 2,5 cm (0,2 in ba 1 in)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)
Ci suuf, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
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
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Green weaver ant
Green weaver ant. Foto: Geoff Shuetrim. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • 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

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay xëpp walla tuuf

Dafay xëpp walla tuuf ab ndox muy lakk ci kaw ñi ko song.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

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

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: WoyofNi jamu yamb walla lu ko yées. Lu jege, amul lor ci nit.

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

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

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

Su la xëppee

  • Raxas te sedal fa mu jam.
  • Su nit ki am jafe-jafe ci noyyi, kanamam walla putam funki, walla mu bëgg a xëm, allergie bu metti la (urgence): woo sa nimerob urgence.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

  • Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
  • May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
  • Su benn xëppee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Fan ci àddina?

AfrigAsiTugalAmerig gu Bëj-gànnaarAmerig gu Bëj-saalumOstarali ak Oseyani

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Green weaver ant guddaayam lu tollu ci 2,5 cm (1 in)Ab pees bu 1 euro lu tollu ci 2,3 cm (0,9 in)Ab trombone lu tollu ci 3 cm (1,2 in)
guddu na lu tollu ci trombone

Green weaver ant ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

baax na xam

Xibaar

1

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

2

A single colony can reach up to half a million individuals, and one colony was recorded occupying 151 nests across 12 trees.1

3

Some jumping spiders mimic these ants with chemical scents to enter their nests and eat the larvae.1

4

In Thailand and the Philippines, the larvae and pupae are eaten, and are said to taste creamy, sour and lemony.1

5

The oldest written record of using these ants for pest control is from China in 304 CE, where they protected citrus.1

6

In Java, Indonesia, the larvae and pupae, called kroto, are harvested as food for songbirds and as fishing bait.1

Tasukatu léeb

Xalaat bu juum: Green weaver ants sting like bees or wasps.

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

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Oecophylla smaragdina
Mbooloo
Fourmi yi
Njaboot
Formicidae2
Toftal
Hymenoptera
Kontinaa yi
Asi, Ostarali ak Oseyani
Musiba ci nit
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Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Oecophylla smaragdina (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Oecophylla smaragdina (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.

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