What you see at this time is a type of weaver ant. Weaver ants live in colonies or in groups in large numbers, these ants are included in the hard-working ant group and here I will explain a little of my knowledge about these weaver ants.
They can be found in almost every tree with large leaves, because they will make a nest on the leaves and then form it into a closed nest. Weaver ants are still a class of animals that we often encounter in large trees, especially in tropical climates. Their life is always in groups, even more than thousands of ants in one colony, they live in colonies and have their respective duties, namely 1. the forager 2. the guardian and 3. the queen they respect.
The queen in this ant colony is the leader who will multiply their descendants so from that the other ants will take turns looking after and finding food for the queen so that their colony continues to multiply and multiply. The queen here will lay more than 12000 eggs which will produce seeds for the ant colony ants because from that the queen will be closely guarded by the guarding colonies.
The life of this weaver ant can be categorized as a beautiful life because they always choose shady places and large leafy trees so they can make a nest that will protect them from danger and things that will damage the development of weaver ant eggs.
How do the ants protect the queen or a colony from harm? Now the danger sign that we can remember from these ants is that when there is a danger nearby the weaver ants will lift the antenna on their head and lift their rear body up to indicate that they are in danger and are ready to attack whatever is in front of them and endanger them.
There is very much we can learn from the life of this weaver ant, besides they live in groups or colonies they will also look after each other and always greet each other when they pass by other weaver ants.
These weaver ants will forage for protein and carbohydrate foods that they can find in dew and honey. Weaver ants compactly look for food together and take turns before the sun sets. After that after that they will together guard their eggs.
We also need to know that even these weaver ant eggs are often sought after by people who keep birds. Apart from high protein, several vitamins are also contained in weaver ant eggs. So from that weaver ant hunting is also very much. The price it offers is very much. expensive for every kilogram of these ant eggs.
And when their eggs are seized by hunters, these queen ants will usually leave or die and the colony will not make a nest right in the old nest, or you could say they will move places.
there is a lot that we can learn in this very beautiful nature, one of which is a small animal in the shady trees. i love nature