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Observer

vipinbaliga

Date

Apr 13, 2012 02:25 PM IST

Place

virajpet (Google, OSM)

Description

I found a few Queen ants on branches and leaves. Although not together. They were seperated by a few trees atleast... It seemed they were searching for a nice spot to start their colony in or am i wrong..? I haven't much clue...

Any info would be greatly appreciated... :-)

size: 2cm approx

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Observer

vishalbhave

Date

Oct 26, 2006 01:46 PM IST

Description

one of the Common ant in my town

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Description from Wikipedia

Weaver ants or Green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants are obligately arboreal and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting 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...

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