#3628 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Asian Weaver Ant
🇳🇱 Groene wevermier ·Oecophylla smaragdina
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Thomas Job · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © harshithjv · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Geoff Shuetrim · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © GURURAJ GOUDA · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © 藜梓柠 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © phoebezhouhuixin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Dr. Jessa Thurman · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Roger Shaw · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 10. © 藜梓柠 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include weaver ant , green ant , green tree ant , and orange gaster ) is a species of arboreal ant found in tropical Asia and Australia. These ants form colonies with multiple nests in trees, each nest being made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by the ant larvae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 35,274 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Asian Weaver Ant
- Nederlands
- Groene wevermier
- scientific name
- Oecophylla smaragdina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Formicidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2
- sightings worldwide
- 35,274
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Formicidae
#3512 📷 10Jet Ant
🇳🇱 Glanzende houtmier
Lasius fuliginosus
👀 582 in NL
#3527 📷 10Grauwzwarte renmier
Formica fusca
👀 207 in NL
#3528 📷 10Blood-red Field Ant
🇳🇱 Bloedrode roofmier
Formica sanguinea
👀 206 in NL
#3531 📷 10Southern Wood Ant
🇳🇱 Behaarde rode bosmier
Formica rufa
NT 👀 183 in NL
#3545 📷 10Brown Tree Ant
🇳🇱 Boommier
Lasius brunneus
👀 119 in NL
#3547 📷 8Black Garden Ant
🇳🇱 Wegmier
Lasius niger
👀 105 in NL
#3549 📷 10Bosslankmier
Temnothorax nylanderi
👀 100 in NL
#3555 📷 8Black-backed meadow ant
🇳🇱 Zwartrugbosmier
Formica pratensis
NT 👀 84 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117293, Wikidata Q1132830, GBIF 1317388, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.