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Spotted at basecamp for Alab Cave, Baggao, Cagayan. Unlike fire ants, these fold leaves of fruit trees to make their nest as in the last two photos. Their bite still burns like fire!
Makes a nest of folded leaves of fruit trees (mango, jackfruit, goyabano, etc).
Photos by Jerry Rendon.
Thanks for the links S Frazier, haven't run across them yet, they're great spottings.
Yeas I'd say they're Oecophylla http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/782... and http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/702...
Can they be weaver ants, Oecophylla sp.? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_ants...
Spotted on Mar 25, 2012
Submitted on Apr 21, 2012
