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Oecophylla smaragdina - Green Tree Ant
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

photograph © Alex Wild 2004

Oecophylla smaragdina, the green tree ant of Northern Australia, is a type of weaver ant.  These ants make their nests by tying living tree leaves together using silk produced by their larvae.  This is a small nest, only one of several occupied by this colony, formed by folding a leaf back on itself. 

 
Australia, QLD, Cape York: Horne Creek, 23k N Coen. 24.viii.2004
13º43.828'S 143º11.972'E, 160m
Eucalyptus woodland edge with riparian forest.
#AW2483, voucher specimens deposited at ALWC

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