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Weaver Ant Queen
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital campus, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 1st May 2012
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor AF 28-105mm lens
Weaver Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) tending to scale insect for honeydews. Malaysia.
More tropical ants: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/04/tropical-ants.html
Talk about innocent aborad. There are no snakes or dangerouly poisonous animals in New Zealand, so I'm used to just wandering into the bush and poking my nose (or fingers) into anything. I was intrigued by this nest of ants in darwin (their were dozens of nests in this one tree) and tried to shift the nest for a better photo. Boy that stirred things up! I'm not sure if I was bitten or stung but it didn't hurt, just felt like a tiny electric shock. My beloved pointed out that I was lucky I was not either alergic or that I had not encountered a more dangerous animal.
Common names include weaver ant, green ant, green tree ant, and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in Asia and Australia. They make nests in trees made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by their larvae.
Weaver ants may be red or green.
A nest of ants made of leaves (close view of the entry).
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: Insecta
Divisio: ?
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Oecophylla
Reverse lens macro of a Malaysian weaver ant on an asphalt road surface
Red weaver ant
Oecophylla smaragdina
A Lover’s Spat -
Sullen frown and petty fights, heated words so sharp that all love seems lost. Screaming makes the throat sore, in anger they break and parted. A new dawn comes after last night’s rain, still in love; she came forth and boldly bit his lips. The pair finally kissed and made up, the reconciliation makes an empty life full once more.
Green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants are obligately arboreal and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk.
Weaver ant necklace in sterling silver, bronze and 18k yellow gold.
Weaver ants build their nests out of leaves glued together with a sticky, silky substance excreted from grubs that they gently squeeze like glue sticks.
A male weaver ant during naptial flight. Not a daily sighting. During perfect conditions weaver colonies releases princess and drones. These emerge from unfertilized eggs. The drone cant feed and dies after mating. The different colonies sync this event for interbreed and better offspring.
Two weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina, Formicidae) are carrying a caterpillar back to their nest in the Dipterocarp forest around Angkor, Northwest Cambodia (April 2012).
Alerted by my camera flash, native Australian Green Tree Ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) swarm out of a nest entrance to confront the intruder. This nest was very new, and consisted of only two or three leaves stitched together with silk.
animal, fauna, wildlife, ant, weaver, weaver ant, asian weaver ant, red weaver ant, oecophylla, oecophylla smaragdina, leaf nest, nest, perak, malaysia, asia, august 2021
This is the Queen among "Weaver ants"
Saw 3 leaves bound in a tree of our garden.. Wanted to see whats inside n pulled it apart, saw this ant taking care of all the pupae..
After mating the female queen ant separates from the colony to start its own.. It sheds its wings n starts building up the family of worker ants which later do all the work of foraging, building nest n defending it...
A nest of ants made of leaves (close view of the entry).
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: Insecta
Divisio: ?
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Oecophylla
Two queens seen here escorted by worker ants.
these and can be aggressive, biting and spraying formic acid for defense.
Weaver Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina).
These ants choose living leaves to build their nest. The edges of the leaves are pulled together and glued by silk released from the larva.
Weaver Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) tending to scale insect for honeydews. Malaysia.
More tropical ants: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/04/tropical-ants.html