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Weaver ants collaborating to pull nest leaves together. Weaver ant colonies are founded by one or more mated females . [17] 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.
Nest in Ghana. Oecophylla longinoda (common name weaver ant) is a species of arboreal ant found in the forested regions of tropical Africa. They are one of only two extant species of the genus Oecophylla, the other being O. smaragdina. They make nests in trees made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by their larvae.
This spider visually mimics this ant, via contracted body parts to create the illusion of a hymenopteran body structure. It also has two black spots to mimic eyes on the side of its head. This spider also steals the ant's brood to obtain the scent of the colony. Despite this, they generally steer clear of weaver ant nests.
These highly territorial ants live in colonies that can consist of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and contain 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. Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
The highly invasive species of ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, more commonly known as the Electric ant, recently spread to the western area of the country, as well as other countries that aethiops is native to such as Gabon, and since then, Tetraponera aethiops populations have been declining as the invasive species is more powerful and fast ...
· Carpenter ants vary in size from ¼ to 1/2 inch; they do not eat wood like termites, but they will excavate damp wood in your house to create galleries where they nest. Another type of ant you ...
They are opportunistic cavity-dwellers, semi-nomadic carpenter ants which are found around grasslands in Central and South America. [1] [2] It is taxonomically believed to be a complex of cryptic species and was previously considered synonymous with Camponotus textor which once included a distantly-related species of weaver-ant. [3]
Camponotus textor, also known as Brazilian weaver ant, is a species of fairly common tree-dwelling ant native to South and Central America. [1] It is believed to include a number of cryptic species , and previously were considered synonymous to the cavity-dwelling ant Camponotus senex , now thought to be only distantly-related.