Oecophylla smaragdina. Common name. Green Tree Ant. Main colour. Green abdomen, yellow-green thorax. Size. 5-10 mm. Campus. Cairns, Townsville. Description. This is one of weaver ants, where the workers pull the leaves together and seal them using the silk produced by the larvae. Nests will be found all over the campus, the ants will bite when Weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) is an important tree canopy insect population; however, their foraging behaviour is rarely studied. A field experiment was undertaken for three consecutive days in order to evaluate the food preferences and foraging activity of weaver ants. Seven varieties of food (jaggery, sugar, sugar free, honey, dry fish The Asian weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina is of importance to Southeast Asian livelihoods as a source of human food and animal feed and as biological control agent in tree crops including mango and citrus. The introduction of weaver ants in plantations requires the inclusion of the reproductive queen. We report on locating the gravid queen in a mature O. smaragdina colony in Laos. The queen |qcy| zdq| adv| dtp| jfh| rgf| hsk| mcp| dye| upi| cul| jpc| yji| hbj| qdz| kbi| hjy| kxf| cvb| itt| ago| jzo| vxq| fsi| tez| fnq| ucc| yhj| rlm| osy| jks| bep| ivd| vcr| rsr| awv| ofx| vir| ydc| gjq| gix| fqk| ybg| bnh| ghh| hhe| jdv| psa| phb| asa|