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A queen weaver ant threatening to bite me while I photographer her and her new colony. You will see pupae of different stages of development in this set. More tropical ants: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/04/tropical-ants.html
"Up for something"
While browsing through my "old" photos (the ones taken with my ahem not-so-good-for-macro EF 28-135mm), I found this one that shows these ants "up for something".
Those are the "thingies" that you can usually find near these ants. Are they aphids?
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: Insecta
Divisio: Neoptera
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Oecophylla
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Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: Insecta
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamilia: Coccoidea
Familia: Pseudococcidae
Two queens seen here escorted by worker ants.
these and can be aggressive, biting and spraying formic acid for defense.
a random walk observing weaver ants on one lazy evening. Thousands of them in one place working in harmony with each others.
I pass this and another weaver Ant nest daily on my walk to work. Usually the light is too poor for a really good close-up photo, but i'm working on it.
Weaver Ant Queen (inside with eggs) and a ? slug outside
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital campus, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 15th July 2012
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor AF 28-105mm lens
Two queens seen here escorted by worker ants.
these and can be aggressive, biting and spraying formic acid for defense.
This structure, built from leaves, is the home of a colony of weaver or green tree ants. These are very common in the Townsville area, sometimes occurring in clusters of 10-20 in a single tree.
(same story as www.flickr.com/photos/22019541@N07/2203946706/in/photostr...
I discover this Weaver Ant's nest half opened and decided do take a look inside. It was quite creepy: all the ants were dead, even the ones outside the nest seem to have be frozen in their positions.
I call this nest Pompei.
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: Insecta
Divisio: ?
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Oecophylla
Found these ones near Oecophylla smaragdina's pathway.
The biggest one is more than 1cm long.
I wonder what happened here. It looks like a gruesome killing of a family thing.
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A queen.
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: Insecta
Divisio: ?
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Oecophylla
Thailand: on or around my wife's land in village of Nong Hualing Nok near Nong Saeng, Nakhon Nayok Province
These weaver ants seem to feed on something on young shoots or buds of a range of unrelated plants.
Uploaded as Costus speciosus. Name updated August 2022 to Hellenia speciosa, as accepted in Kew's Plants of the World Online.
A nest of ants made of leaves (bottom view).
Singapore.
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Classis: Insecta
Divisio: ?
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Oecophylla