weaver ant
oecophylla latin

Though these spiders mimic the weaver ants very well, they are known to stay away from them.

These types of ants are many, an example being the weaver ants.

Weaver ants, for example, have a distinct bimodal size distribution.

Since weaver ants have a painful bite and also taste bad, this strategy appears to be successful.

Weaver ants - social establishment and maintenance of territory.

The large compound eyes of the weaver ant are mimicked by two black patches on the head.

Division of labour influences the rate of ageing in weaver ant workers.

Oecophylla weaver ants are known for their remarkable cooperative behaviour used in nest construction.

Weaver ants may be red or green.

Weaver ant colonies are founded by one or more mated females (queens).

M. citrifolia is especially attractive to weaver ants, which make nests from the leaves of the tree.

Unlike the weaver ants, M. plataleoides does not bite people, and indeed seems rather timid.

Many studies have shown the efficacy of using weaver ants as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests.

Oecophylla weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species.

M. plataleoides, especially the females, mimic the Weaver Ants in size, shape and colour.

The spiders live in trees and bushes where the weaver ants live in colonies.

Multimodal communication in Oecophylla weaver ants importantly contribute to colony self-organization.

The weaver ant's ability to build capacious nests from living leaves has undeniably contributed to their ecological success.

Weaver ants are one of the most valued types of insects eaten by humans (entomophagy).

Weaver ants use their larvae as portable tubes of glue, to stick together the leaves that form their nest.

Linda McKinney is studying the swarming behavior of weaver ants in Africa.

The use of weaver ants as biocontrol agents has especially been effective for fruit agriculture, particularly in Australia and southeast Asia.

The alarm pheromone of the weaver ant is a complex message stimulating a whole series of responses in its nestmates.

In Australia it is not usually found above 300 metres and occupies a similar range to the weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina.

A. albomaculata mimics its weaver ant prey (Oecophylla).

Oecophylla colonies may not be entirely beneficial to the host plants.

Anoplolepis can be distinguished from Oecophylla by the more compact petiole.

Oecophylla workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers.

They are one of only two extant species of the genus Oecophylla, the other being O. smaragdina.

Both Leptomyrmex and Oecophylla can be confused with Anoplolepis because of their similar sizes and very long limbs.

These losses correlate with ants that have a 'weaving' lifestyle, such as ants in the genus Oecophylla, Camponotus and Polyrhachis.

This could be a natural biological control that is worth considering if agents to control the Cromatogaster ants are developed, since they should not target Oecophylla ants as well.

When at rest, the ant-mimicking crab spider Amyciaea does not closely resemble Oecophylla, but while hunting it imitates the behavior of a dying ant to attract worker ants.

Recruitment has also been observed by the African Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda for the purpose of communicating new food sources, emigration to new sites, and for defense against intruders.

Like many other ant species, Oecophylla workers exhibit social carrying behavior as part of the recruitment process, in which one worker will carry another worker in its mandibles and transport it to a location requiring attention.

Polyrhachis and Dendromyrmex are two other genera of weaving ants that also use larval silk in nest construction, but the construction and architecture of their nests are simpler than those of Oecophylla.

Weaver ant ('Oecophylla' spp.) workers build nests in trees by attaching leaves together, first pulling them together with bridges of workers and then inducing their larvae to produce silk as they are moved along the leaf edges.

In Australia, Oecophylla smaragdina is found in the tropical coastal areas as far south as Rockhampton and across the coastal tropics of the Northern Territory down to Broome in West Australia.

Studies indicate that the presence of Oecophylla colonies may also have negative effects on the performance of host plants by reducing fruit removal by mammals and birds and therefore reducing seed dispersal and by lowering the flower-visiting rate of flying insects including pollinators.