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Weaver ants

We are delighted that the Bonn-Tomburg Lions Club has taken over the sponsorship of the weaver ants (Oecophylla spec.). This will enable the purchase, rearing and care of a living colony of weaver ants for the new rainforest exhibition

  • Name
    Weaver ants
  • Scientific Name
    Oecophylla spec.
  • Sponsor
    Lions Club Bonn-Tomburg

Weaver ants

 

We are delighted that the Bonn-Tomburg Lions Club has taken over the sponsorship of the weaver ants (Oecophylla spec.). This will enable the purchase, breeding and care of a living colony of weaver ants for the new rainforest exhibition.

In the rainforests of Africa and Asia, they are regarded as the "rulers of the canopy": weaver ants - remarkable insects with an ancient ancestry that have developed some of the most complex social behaviours known in the animal kingdom.

In the new rainforest exhibition, visitors will be able to experience "live" what real teamwork can achieve with a colony of living weaver ants: With combined forces and their larvae as suppliers of spider silk, the industrious ants weave leaves and twigs in the rainforest treetops into large nest pavilions in which the colony lives safely protected from enemies.

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