Venom Wiki
Venom Wiki / 所有生物 / 螞蟻
Green weaver ant 的卡通圖
第 1034 號，共 1 402 號

Green weaver ant

Oecophylla smaragdina
名字的由來： 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
無害對人無害。不用擔心。
螞蟻 噴射或吐出吃：昆蟲
對人的危險: 輕微跟蜜蜂螫差不多或更輕微。對人基本上無害。

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

分布在
Tropical Asia, from India through Indonesia and the Philippines, and Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia1
亞洲, 澳洲與大洋洲
首頁
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
長度
5 mm 到 2,5 cm (0,2 in 到 1 in)1
最高速度
大約 0,16 km/h（0,1 mph）
在陸地上, 粗略估計
牠吃什麼？
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
是真的！Green weaver ant 的照片
Green weaver ant。照片：Geoff Shuetrim。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

  • 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

毒液力量

噴射或吐出

牠會對攻擊者噴出或吐出刺痛的液體。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

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

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 輕微跟蜜蜂螫差不多或更輕微。對人基本上無害。

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

牠害怕時會做什麼？

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

如果牠噴到你

  • 清洗並冷敷螫傷處。
  • 如果傷者呼吸困難、臉部或喉嚨腫脹，或覺得快要昏倒，這就是過敏急症：打緊急電話。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。 急救基本知識

注意安全

  • 絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
  • 給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
  • 如果被牠噴到：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。 更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

Green weaver ant 大約 2,5 cm 長 (1 in)一枚 1 歐元硬幣 大約 2,3 cm (0,9 in)一根迴紋針 大約 3 cm (1,2 in)
大約跟一根迴紋針一樣長

Green weaver ant 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

值得知道

小知識

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

破解迷思

迷思： Green weaver ants sting like bees or wasps.

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

給毒液專家

學名
Oecophylla smaragdina
類群
螞蟻
家人
Formicidae2
排序
Hymenoptera
各大洲
亞洲, 澳洲與大洋洲
對人的危險
1 / 5: 輕微3

知識的出處

  1. Oecophylla smaragdina (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Oecophylla smaragdina (iNaturalist): 名稱和分類。
  3. Venom Wiki: 危險等級、一般大小和速度估計都是我們自己定的。看看我們是怎麼算出來的： 我們怎麼評估危險.

這一頁的每個知識都有一個數字，指向它的出處。如果我們寫錯了，對不起，我們是動物迷，不是科學期刊。寫信到 [email protected] 告訴我們，我們會修正。

蠍子肚子餓了！ Venom Wiki 是一個人的計畫：免費、沒有廣告、沒有追蹤器。一點點小費就能幫它繼續上線。餵蠍子

同一類群的其他動物: 螞蟻

Bulldog ant螞蟻需要看醫生Jack jumper ant螞蟻需要看醫生Red wood ant螞蟻無害Arboreal bicoloured ant螞蟻只是會痛Asian needle ant螞蟻只是會痛Black-banded jumper ant螞蟻只是會痛

也分布在: 亞洲

Deathstalker蠍子致命Indian cobra眼鏡蛇、曼巴蛇和環蛇致命Indian saw-scaled viper蝰蛇致命King cobra眼鏡蛇、曼巴蛇和環蛇致命Puff adder蝰蛇致命Russell's viper蝰蛇致命
餵蠍子小費罐，讓它保持免費