Farming weaver ants

weaver ants or kerangga in Indonesian (oecophylla) is a rather large-sized ants are known to have a high ability to form a woven net for them because this ant nest is nicknamed "weeaver ant" or ant stranding nets. These ants are known in the world there are two types of the first was the Asian weaver (oecophllya smaragdina) widespread in pakistan to australia northern part and one kind again is oecophllya longinoda spread tropical regions of Africa.
as where many other ants weaver ants are social insects that live in colonies, in the social group to work in accordance with the type of each individual (caste). population in a colony of weaver ants can be very much at all, weaver ants are territorial very keep the place alive their territory and berkarater malignant, these ants will not hesitate reluctant anything approaching their activity area

The structure of the social life of weaver ants

Queen ant : is very easy to recognize because the queen ant has a body rather large, colored greenish to brown with a big belly and produce very many eggs candidates chicks ant rang rang this, the queen ant initially have wings just like male ants, but once they do marriage wings ant queen is in spite of itself, the queen ant is found in places that are difficult to be disturbed so they can put the eggs their eggs safe from predators such as rodents, birds, ferrets and hunting humans, if they are disturbed they will move to place more safe, rau ant nests are usually in the nest that is not too small, with green foliage that is still fresh, when most ants nest began to dry up the other caste and queen will leave the nest and move to another nest

Male weaver ant : weaver ants male body size is smaller than the queen ant, colored blackish unique victimization of male weaver ants are she will die after marrying the queen ant

Worker ant : ant worker ants are females do not lay eggs ant, ant worker ants stay in the nest and care for the eggs and young ants ant. but on the condition if in one colony there is no queen ant then they will spawn

soldier ants: Ants soldiers are members of the colony whose numbers at most, in the colony of soldier ants are responsible and in charge of all activities in the colonies, they keep the nests from bullies, they also collect and transport food to all aggota colonies as well as their also likely to build nests for the colony and place their queen laying eggs their eggs when their nests there is danger ant soldier ants carries the eggs and ants young ants with their teeth are strong enough to move to a safe place, on certain conditions they also served to put eggs are safe to place just like a queen

Breeding weaver ants

Growth stage weaver ants started from egg to larva, from larva to pupa and then into adult ants, eggs are so small approximately measuring 0.5 mm x 1 mm elliptical shape colored putuh, while the larvae are white as rice no legs and no wings but already eyes and mouth, then pupae resemble adult ants but not inactive, and White later pupa will turn into adult ants also color according to caste, breeding cycle ant rang rang from the queen and the male mating marked by the release of syap the queen within 5-10 days of the queen to lay eggs, breeding ants rang rang is highly dependent on the ambient temperature, namely at a temperature of approximately 30 degrees Celsius, from egg to larva takes approximately 8 days, then on day 17 into a pupa, on day 28 adult ant pupae will be in accordance with chestnut

How weaver ants create nests

Weaver ants caste soldier pulls the leaves leaf with the same, while other ants fellow workers knit foliage from within by using larvae and teeth as spinning or fiber which is derived from the ant larvae rang rang, then be nests where they take refuge, shelter and raising their queen egg egg,weaver ants it has the ability to adapt to the environment are very high both the circumstances surrounding the air and weather, they'd always trying to get food and shelter in optimal conditions, ideal conditions for the ants rang rang is little interference from predators, food needs are met, available foliage for nesting, they liked the ambient temperature 26-34 degrees celius with relative humidity between 62 to 92 percent, in the wild ant this rang rang like tall trees such as mango, rambutan, kedondong (Spondias dulcis)

eating weaver ants

eating weaver ants, weaver ants like food that is varied but can be classified into two major groups: proteins and sugars but ants rang rang unlike ants else where ants rang rang prefer foods that contain a lot of protein from the foods that contain lots of sugar, protein they love can be fish, chicken, crickets and caterpillars, and grasshoppers

Breading weaver ants

Raising weaver ants is a business opportunity that promises because in the wild these commodities is increasingly rare to come by while the need for eggs weaver ants is growing by day both for food and needs a hobby that is, food fish, for food birds chirping for bird lovers twitter as well as bait for fishing for that this time we will discuss cultivation of weaver ants.

number of weaver ants in the nest are numerous and varied between 4000 till 6000 the tail as a breeder we need to remember is that the beginning of the formation of a colony derived from a nest this we need to understand in order to avoid a war between ants that caused the death of an ant and a failed bred ants rang this rang. as the translation example in a piece of land to grow a mango tree in the tree, there are 3 nest of weaver ants, another one there guava tree water on this tree are 2 nest of weaver ants distance between the two trees is approximately 50 meters of the small colony that existed at the mango tree and guava water is different colonies now to cultivate this ant can not be united from two different trees because when they meet they will fight and spitting venom, respectively and result in death for both.

media ant nest

Based media source weaver ants nest is divided into two, namely the media natural and artificial media 

Natural Media : This media rely on trees as a medium nest is usually cultivated in a natural way aims to pest natural controls where colonies of weaver ants required to kill or eat the pests in certain crops for example in citrus that daunya very popular caterpillar, methods Worlds is suitable to be applied in the vast land with the main crops of fruits, but this medium has the disadvantage of requiring large area, controlling perkembangiakanya difficult to control, harvesting eggs and larvae is quite difficult

artificial media : Artificial media: media is relying on material man-made materials and required human intervention in breeding, materials that can be used are materials that exist around us both that we can buy as a jar with a wide range of sizes and can also use items used items such as pieces of PVC , cans, plastic bottles, bamboo road segments over the media later in the stacking them neatly on a shelf or desk with terraced shape.

we must pay attention to the basics in media placement artificial nests, where the material is provided is not easily damaged, try ants do not leave the location placement for this case we can use water or used oil by means menempatkanya in a bowl or and forth to accommodate a liquid and in all parts of the feet align rack or table tujuanya that weaver ants do not go away from the media that we create.

For prospective breeders weaver ants can be obtained by moving directly from nature, when all around us there are still many gardens which many ant nest it so we can take the colony and then we move to the media hive before we have prepared with techniques traditionally we must prepare scissors or a knife to cut the branch where the nest is, a sack to wrap nest after being taken let semutnya not on vague, gloves let me not be bitten, and others as needed, the most appropriate way to take the nest is first wrap nest using sacks then tied once bound newly cut branches that are nest weaver ants her or if we fear we could buy from collectors but in this way we do not know for certain the ants are coming from a single colony or not, the way that others are very easy to start raising weaver ants this was purchased from captive broodstock that provide seed