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Apocrita (wasps, bees and ants) Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, [2][3] in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. [4] Many of the species are parasitic. Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts ...
Cecropia. Loefl. Cecropia is a Neotropical genus consisting of 61 recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees. [1] The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic. [2] Berg and Rosselli state that the genus is characterized by ...
Duroia tree: 4 - Intimate Relations: How ants depend on the Duroia tree for a nesting site, and in return protect the tree from plant predators and competing plants. Symbiosis: Plants and insects: Ant, aphid: 4 - Intimate Relations: How ants protect aphids from predation by ladybirds, and in return get a meal of sugary nectar. Children's ...
Leafcutter ants, a non-generic name, are any of 47 species [1] of leaf-chewing ants belonging to the two genera Atta and Acromyrmex, within the tribe Attini. These species of tropical, fungus-growing ants are all endemic to South and Central America, Mexico, and parts of the southern United States. [2] Leafcutter ants can carry twenty times ...
Andrenidae. The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas (warm temperate xeric). It includes some enormous genera (e.g., Andrena with over 1300 species, and Perdita with over 700).
Oecophylla longinoda in blue, Oecophylla smaragdina in red. [2] Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the Hymenoptera family Formicidae belonging to the tribe Oecophyllini. Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together ...
Paracolobopsis Emery, 1920. Shanwangella Zhang, J., 1989. Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers 7 to 13 mm or to in) indigenous to many forested parts of the world. [3] They build nests inside wood, consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles or jaws, preferably in dead, damp wood.
F. Smith, 1877 [1] The acacia ant (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) is a species of ant of the genus Pseudomyrmex. These arboreal, wasp-like ants have an orange-brown body around 3 mm in length and very large eyes. The acacia ant is best known and named for living in symbiosis with the bullhorn acacia (Acacia cornigera) throughout Central America.