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Subfamily Ponerinae
- This page contains pictures and information about Green-head Ants that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 7mm
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- Green-head Ants are also known as Metallic Pony Ants. Their workers
are usually seen foraging on ground or low vegetations. They are common in
Brisbane include backyards, gardens and bushes. They will give the painful stings against intruders.
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Those ants active from
morning to evening. They like sugar and will attend the scale insect
and planthoppers for their "honey dew".
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- Green-head Ants build their nest in soil openly or under rocks. They are not
very aggressive and have weak stink. However, I
have a painful sting experience from them for I accidentally put my bare foot over their nest.
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Green-head Ants are black in colour, with metallic purple-green colour on
head and body when watch closely under the sun.
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Winged Class
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- A closer look to the winged ants, they are about the same size as the
worker ants. They look exactly the same excepted winged. We do not known if
this is a male or female.
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Found a Earthworm
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They are scavengers as well as predators. We saw them hiding near the nests
of other smaller ants species and attacked them.
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- As most other ants, the adults feed on liquid sugar as their daily energy source.
They look for rich protein foods to feed their young.
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Found a Wasp
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- The Green-head Ants found a Hairy
Flower Wasp in our backyard. The Hairy Flower Wasps are known to
parasite on scarab larvae, includes the Brown
Cockchafer larvae which also found under lawn in our backyard. The wasp
could be just newly emerged but unluckily found by the ants.
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- Reference and Link:
- 1. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p286.
- 2. Rhytidoponera
metallica -
Green-head ant - myrmecos.net,
2005.
- 3. Green-head Ant Fact File
- Wild life of Sydney, Australian Museum 2005.
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