Green Ants in Cooktown , Queensland.
At night the weaving of the nests is done by the major workers towards the exterior, while the minor workers conduct the weaving within the interior. A mature colony can hold as
many as 100,000 to 500,000 workers and may span as many as 12 trees and contain as many as 150 nests. Green ant colonies have one queen and a colony can live for up to eight years.
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28 comments:
What an interesting post for the G Day, Wil!! Terrific captures! I love to learn something new! Hope your week is off to a great start! Enjoy!
Oh wow! They look like miniature aliens! Never heard of them before but quite fascinating. Have a good week, Wil.
Leslie
abcw team
Walking grapes!
Like black swans, a magical new sight
ALOHA, Dear Wil
from Honolulu
Comfort Spiral
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I have never seen these kind of ants before. Amazing!
This is my new thing to learn today Wil!!! I have never heard of green ants..and I love the pictures and information. Thank you for sharing. Blogging is the most wonderful way to expand my knowledge (so beautifully and so painlessly!)...If I had read this information in a book, I'd probably not have remembered it for long, but reading it here --- with your family connection and pictures -- I am sure I'll retain the information.
That is just so interesting! I've never seen green ants before. We have red and black and that's good enough, please.
What lovely shots of the ants.
They are GREEN so they have to be cute!
What the variety of the ant. looking Green. such beautiful.. thanks for sharing this post...
Well, isn't that something? Never seen a green ant before. They almost look like they are almost transparent are glowing like. What a wonderful insect that they offer a medicinal purpose as well. How interesting. Great post! =)
Ants are very interesting creatures and these really know how to build a neat house. Think I would have to be really sick though to drink their belly juice.
Very interesting post.
Nature really is incredible isn't it Wil?
My goodness, I never heard of Green Ants before.
They certainly are industrious and can build amazing structures.
I just saw Cloudia comment and laughed...walking grapes...too funny.
That is very interesting, Wil. I don't imagine a farmer would welcome an infestation of green ants, but they are fascinating to see.
Great shots and an interesting post.
Wow, Wil, they're amazing. I seem to think I've heard of them before but I don't know where and I don't know when.
A fascinating submission for the letter G.
—Kay
I've never seen a green ant before this, thanks for sharing the photos.
well, they are interesting. I've never seen or heard of them before.
Never knew these existed but then there are so many little creatures and critters in this world! Thanks for the interesting post.
Even in a green dress I don't like them !
Ants are not on my 'favourites' list but they are fascinating creatures, the last photo of them is amazing. Australia must be an entomologist's dream.
Great looking nests created by the ants.
Very interesting post!
I saw these once on a nature program as a kid and I couldn't remember their name until now!
Great post!
Fascinating! Those nests are amazing!
Aloha Dear WIL :-)
Houla Oo
Clever little bugs! I've never seen or even heard green ants. All our ants are either black or red and build their nests in the ground. . Interesting!
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