A tropical ant which builds its nest between leaves that are fastened together using silk secreted by the larvae.
编织蚁
Genera Oecophylla and Camponotus, family Formicidae
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In Bako National Park on the island of Borneo, a little red Leaf beetle of the subfamily Chrysomelinae has made the mistake of alighting on a tree where a colony of weaver ants has fashioned a nest.
One group of lowland gorillas, for instance, eats termites but not weaver ants, while another group is the other way around; both insects are common in both locations.
A University of Massachusetts team has now shown the amazing way they do this, using high-speed photography on honeybees and weaver ants walking on glass, and studying the foot structure under a microscope.
In extreme cases, particularly in large, monogynous colonies, such as in weaver ants, the entire body of the queen is covered by a seething shell of guards.
For example, African weaver ant colonies compete with each other for territories, with one colony eventually excluding the other.
It is probably no coincidence that Ed loves weaver ants.