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Oecophylla smaragdina
Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius, 1775, of family Formicidae, commonly called Weaver Ant, Green Ant, Green Tree Ant, and Orange Gaster. This is an unmated winged queen ant. The queen ant starts the ants' nests/colonies. She flies and searches for mate/s. She can mate with one or a few males (one at a time) in the air, or on low vegetation, or on the ground. Once mated, she looks for a nest site, gets rid of her wings, seals herself into a small chamber and lays a small batch of eggs. The coloration of this one is brownish with green abdomen. My previous spotting (spotted on the same day) has more greenish coloration - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/238....
Backyard.
Spotted on May 17, 2013
Submitted on May 23, 2013
9 Comments
Thanks for the nice comments, Ira and Tic :)
Thanks also for the fave, Reza and Sckel :)
nice shots Agnes! :)
nice shot, beautiful
It was new to me too Adi :) first time I've seen the queen!
This is new :)
Thanks Noel! :)
Great spot Agnes!
Thanks Bernadette! :)
Neat spotting and info!