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Green Weaver Ant

1/2/2017

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The Green Weaver Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) is a pest that every North Queenslander would know about. From mowing lawns to gardening to climbing trees and sometimes just walking past a plant, we have all felt the bite of the Green Ant.

The Green Ant is roughly 5 mm - 10 mm in size and they are easy to spot from their yellow abdomen with their distinct green thorax. They also build noticeable nests in the branches and leaves of many trees.
​​​The Green Ant is generally an outdoors ant only but on occasions they may venture inside, but more often than not you will notice them in your gardens/trees and sometimes trailing around the external walls of your home.

They build their nests by making bodily chains and pulling the leaves of a plant together and then stitching the leav
es together with silk produced by special glands in the larvae.
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Queen Green Weaver Ant
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Foliage contacting house

​There are many things a home owner can do to help prevent Green Ant problems around their homes and one of the main things is to try and keep plants/trees from touching the external walls of your house as this allows the ants easy access to your home. We recommend either cutting back the trees or hiring a treelopper if the trees are too large to handle yourself.
Another technique that many people know about is the method of placing a small amount of a non-repellent pesticide in a small container of tuna/cat mince etc. The ants will feed on the tuna/cat mince and then after a day or so would have completely disappeared.

If you're having trouble with Green Ants then please contact Pest Off Solutions and we can eliminate them from your property.
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