Weaver Ant, or green ant, is the common name for the eusocial ants of the genus Oecophylla, which live in trees and are known for their distinctive nest-building behavior of weaving leaves together 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, and the ants prey on small insects while supplementing their diet with honeydew excreted by scale insects.
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Source GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Oecophylla
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Source Wikipedia: Weaver antDistribution: Australiatier 2Quote, Distribution: Australia
Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters.
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1. Wikipedia: Weaver ant
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Because they prey on insects harmful to their host trees, weaver ants are sometimes used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests
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Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk.
Diet and feeding
weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by scale insects
View the Source 2. Oecophylla (Wikipedia)
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Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk.
3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Oecophylla
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"canonicalName": "Oecophylla"
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