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Weaver ants moving a dead millipede.
Wikipedia: Weaver ants or green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behavior where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and containing more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Weaver ant workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers. The major workers are approximately 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. Major workers forage, defend, maintain, and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests.
Weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters. Weaver ants are highly territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders. Because they prey on insects harmful to their host trees, weaver ants are sometime used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests. Although weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort.
A couple of Weaver Ants at Changi Village.
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The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.
Pull down thy vanity, it is not man
Made courage, or made order, or made grace,
Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.
Learn of the green world what can be thy place
In scaled invention or true artistry,
Pull down thy vanity,
Paquin pull down!
The green casque has outdone your elegance.
--Ezra Pound (Canto LXXXI)
Yes, I took a bud of a Thunbergia flower and removed a petal to see what I could see. Lo and behold! here are two Weaver Ants gathering nurture to take back to their woven nesting cradle high up in the foliage of those flowers. If they'd been Three I would have remarked on the Magi of the Season.
Two Weaver Ants at Changi Point.
Take a walk in my blog: A Walk at Changi Point
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Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae. Weaver ants live in trees and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk.
A queen lays her first clutch of eggs on a leaf and protects and feeds the larvae until they develop into mature workers. The workers then construct leaf nests and help rear new brood laid by the queen. As the number of workers increases, more nests are constructed and colony productivity and growth increase significantly.
You've seen or heard of those huge Weaver Ant nests that can in a colony have over half a million denizens... Well, it's all got to start somewhere.
Here's the Once and Future Queen. She's bitten off the wings used for her Nuptial Flight, and has laid her first batch of eggs on the underside of a Beach Lettuce leaf. She'll take care of those eggs as they hatch into larvae which she'll feed into adulthood like a proper Mother of her People. Soon a Leaf House will be pasted together, and the young colony will be on its way.
Isn't She fascinating!
A queen is she
However tiny a being be
A being, majestic
However tiny a queen be
Not in a royal couch
Was she, had no maids of honour,
On a bent down branch
Of a jack tree was she sitting ,strange
Is there a foe
To fight and prowess show ?
Against this queen
A marvellous creature, in no less sheen
- Anuj Nair
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Set of 3 -The green tree ant found in Northern Australia is a type of weaver ant found in many parts of the world. The Australian species (Oecophylla smaragdina) is commonly referred to as either a green tree ant or weaver ant. They are called weaver ants because they weave a nest together out of leaves. The leaves are joined by a silky substance produced from their larvae.
Due to the absence of bees in this part of Australia they are pollinators of fruit flowers.
Apparently, green ants are a good source of vitamin C, taste of lemon, and are traditionally used by Aboriginal people.
Weaver Ants - Oecophylla smaragdina - are tree dwellers and are known for the clever way in which they weave leaves together, using their silk, to form nests. Colonies of Weaver Ants can consist of over 100 nests which can contain over half a million ants. These, in the picture, are major workers whose job it is to maintain their colony in a variety of ways including foraging and actively defending against intruders. Because they eat insects which are harmful to crops, farmers in some areas use them to help their fight to keep these insect numbers down. Weaver Ants don't actually sting but they can give a nasty bite into which they sometimes spray formic acid causing rather a lot of discomfort. These were seen in Goa India. Be careful when walking under those trees, folks ;-)
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I am tagged by three lovely people ( காவியம்/kaaviyam, Artistic A!!ure, ranjini----)
I have no way out now. ;-)
Here are 16 things about me :
1. A rolling stone that gathered no moss
2. I can move my ears
3. I am a teetotaller
4. A secret shared with me will go to the grave with me
5. I wrote and made a book, with cartoons, stories & articles when I was four. Asked my father to help me get it published,but he was helpless
6. I remember things that happened since the age of 1
7. I sing while I take bath & sometimes when I am driving
8. Takes not less than 3 baths a day
9. Former President of Taiwan, Late Chiang Ching Kuo was my penfriend
10. I was named when I was 2 & I was also involved in finding a name. I suggested a strange name,'Honi'
11. In school, used to make false confessions to help my friends from getting punished for their mischieves
12. I get migraine headaches
13. I am not a good public speaker
14. My favourite drink is water
15. A freethinker
16. My travel bag is always packed & ready
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Yangga, green ants, have many medicinal uses and are still widely used to combat coughs and colds. They are either eaten alive, or crushed and inhaled like a vapour rub to open up the sinuses. ... The ants make their nests - Gambul yangga - by folding up leaves and fixing them together with larval silk. Breaking open such a nest results in a swarming attack; each defender intent on biting you and getting inside your clothing to do so!
They're really friendly :D
Thank you ;)
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Using a 400mm lens for this macro shot kept a nice distance from these aggresive ants. "Weaver ants (genus Oecophylla) live in trees [...] and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Although weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort." Source: Wikipedia
Won't spare anything that falls, moves or comes closer. They are always ready to attack and do that precisely in a group thereby able to overpower anything larger than them. Seen here a leaf on its way to the ants kingdom.
This is a major worker of the Weaver Ant - Oecophylla smaragdina -, it's his job to defend, maintain and expand the colony as well as foraging for food. He can grow to 10mm in length. The Weaver Ant does not have a sting, instead it has very painful, powerful bite into which they often spray formic acid resulting in intense discomfort. It is known for a very special nest building behaviour where the workers construct the nest by pulling and weaving together leaves, using larval silk to help bind them together. I had just sat down on a bench when I spotted this one as it appeared at the top of a rusty pipe and I just had one quick shot at it before it ran off, this was it. Seen at Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Goa, India.
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Ant Mimicking Crab Spider (Amyciaea sp.) preying on Weaver Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina). West Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea).
Green Tree Ants, sometimes called Weaver Ants, build balloon-shaped nests among the foliage of trees and shrubs. Groups of workers pull leaves close to each other and 'weave' them together with silk produced by the larvae. A Green Tree Ant colony may consist of many nests spread over several trees but there is only a single queen.
Green Tree Ants occur across northern Australia from the Kimberly region in Western Australia to about Gladstone in Queensland. They are found in all forest types but do not occur in the highlands. Green Tree Ant workers are aggressive and defend their nests by swarming onto the attacker. They cannot sting but bite with their jaws and squirt a burning fluid from the tip of the abdomen onto the wound. Green Tree Ants are predators and also collect honeydew from sap-sucking insects.
The caterpillars of many species of butterflies are tended by Green Tree Ants. The flattened, armoured caterpillars of the Moth Butterfly live only inside Green Tree Ant nests where they feed on ant eggs, larvae and pupae. Adult Moth Butterflies emerge inside the nest and are attacked by the ants. They are covered with loose scales that fall out when they are grabbed by the ants. In this way the butterflies can escape the nest without being damaged.
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Best defence also known as Blind defence. Agree? This group of Weaver Ant trying to defence their territory when i was there taking macro with the full Blast of my Flash. They keep coming up, and my flash do the same, Later they stop attack and ignore me, i guess they already Blind....LOL
Do not stand against the Thunderstorm!!!!!
Oecophylla smaragdina?
He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week begins
---Dave Matthews Band ("Ants Marching")
Oecophylla smaragdina
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A weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) on a leaf in Koh Lanta, Thailand.
This girl became increasingly hostile as I came closer (as seen in this shot: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/24651677554/)
Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand--These weaver ants, sometimes called tent ants are working together to bend a leaf in order to build a tent like nest in the tree. They squeeze young ant larva to get a silky glue to join the leaves together. Farmers in Thailand will sometimes tie a string from a tree that's infested with harmful insect to a tree housing weaver ants so that the ants will eleminate the pest insects.
This weaver ant (Oceophylla smaragdina) kept coming back to this planthopper (ID most welcome), presumably for drops of honeydew which I believe these guys produce to turn the ants from predators into protectors.
Set of 3 -The green tree ant found in Northern Australia is a type of weaver ant found in many parts of the world. The Australian species (Oecophylla smaragdina) is commonly referred to as either a green tree ant or weaver ant. They are called weaver ants because they weave a nest together out of leaves. The leaves are joined by a silky substance produced from their larvae.
Due to the absence of bees in this part of Australia they are pollinators of fruit flowers.
Apparently, green ants are a good source of vitamin C, taste of lemon, and are traditionally used by Aboriginal people.