{"id":1216,"date":"2022-01-28T01:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picmybug.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2022-01-28T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:59:25","slug":"weaver-ant-on-picmybug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picmybug.com\/de\/weaver-ant-on-picmybug\/by-family\/bees-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Oecophylla smaragdina – What they eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might remember the story about the oriental whip snake, where I found a paper of researchers who learned from social media posts, what these snakes usually eat.
In case you are currently looking for what weaver ants<\/a> in Singapore eat, you found it here!
Ever since I wrote about those ants the first time, I kept an eye on them. I noticed they are really pissed when their tree got cut (what happens quite often, and you don\u2019t want to be near them then!).
Over the months I also collected some pictures of ants with prey, so I wanted to make a list and share the pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no idea how a weaver ant community works. How much does one ant eat? They can\u2019t all live from one locust sharing per day. Or can they? Do they also eat tiny insects, like a snack on the go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary in January 2022: 1 carpenter bee male, 1 Spider leg (Huntsman<\/a>?), 1 green Tortoise Beetle<\/a>, 1 black leaf hopper, 1 small bee (not 100% sure), 1 large black ant, 1 large golden ant, 1 small black ant, 1 large beetle (probably Oryctes rhinoceros<\/a>) and of course cat food! I have no background of how these preys were caught, for sure weaver ants take dead or almost dead animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n