Species
Weaver Ant (Oecophylla)
Insects
Citation Formats
General Reference
APA Style
BibTeX
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.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
View At A Past Year
The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.