Team WorkThese types of ant are usually called Weaver ants, Red ants or Green ants and seen in coffee, coco, mango trees, jack fruit trees etc. This photo I have clicked on 15th Feb 2009, from a coco plant near to my house, they are looking so brighter in the sun light because of the peculiar red color and the transparent sort of body with some fluids inside.
Weaver ants are known for their unique nest building behavior 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 supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects.
Construction without destruction
The weaver ant's ability to build capacious nests from living leaves has undeniably contributed to their ecological success. The first phase in nest construction involves workers surveying potential nesting leaves by pulling on the edges with their mandibles. When a few ants have successfully bent a leaf onto itself or drawn its edge toward another, other workers nearby join the effort.
Weaver ants are known for their unique nest building behavior 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 supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects.
Construction without destruction
The weaver ant's ability to build capacious nests from living leaves has undeniably contributed to their ecological success. The first phase in nest construction involves workers surveying potential nesting leaves by pulling on the edges with their mandibles. When a few ants have successfully bent a leaf onto itself or drawn its edge toward another, other workers nearby join the effort.
6 comments:
very well captured
its irritating
but really very well click and its moral is superb
We call it "neer urumbu" or "nizar urumbu" in Maalayalam in my village. As we talked, wee too call these ants "Puli Urumbu". "Puli" stands for soar taste and these ants tastes soar because of their acidic body nature. Don't ask me if I had eaten these ants at any time.
But the thing I want to project is that "THE PICTURE IS AMAZING".
--Deepu George V
http://deepugeorge.blogspot.com
Thank you Deeeepu……
You are my inspiration to start blogging, am looking forward your valuable comments and suggestions.
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
if only we could imbibe little bit of their unity in us, this world would be a much more better place to live! So much to see and know around us. Nature envelopes so many such examples teaching us the little things we miss the most in our lives!
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