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Bullet ant

Paraponera clavata
Ne din ho asɛm: The species name clavata means "club-shaped", and the genus name Paraponera translates to "near-Ponera".1
Ɛyɛ yaw kɛkɛƐyɛ yaw, nanso ɛrenpira wo kɛseɛ.
Tɛtea ƐwɔƆdi: Biribiara kakra
Asiane ma nnipa: Ɛyɛ yawƐtumi yɛ yaw paa, nanso ɛkame ayɛ sɛ ɛnyɛ asiane kɛseɛ da.

The bullet ant is a large rainforest ant with a sting that is famously painful. It lives in humid lowland rainforests in Central and South America. Its sting ranks as the most painful of all insect stings on one informal pain scale.1

Ɔte
Central and South America, from Honduras and El Salvador south to Brazil and Bolivia1
Amerika Atifi, Amerika Anaafoɔ
Fie
Colonies of several hundred ants are usually built at the bases of trees in humid lowland rainforest. Workers forage up into the tree canopy, often as high as the upper canopy, and little foraging happens on the forest floor.1
Tenten
1,8 cm kɔsi 3 cm (0,7 in kɔsi 1,2 in)1
Ntɛm a ɛsen biara
bɛyɛ 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)
Asaase so, susuo kɛkɛ
Ɛdi deɛn?
Workers forage in the trees for small arthropods (small invertebrates) and nectar. Nectar, carried between the mandibles (jaws), is the most common food brought back to the nest.1
Ampa!Bullet ant mfonini
Bullet ant. Mfonini: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Sɛdeɛ wobɛhunu no

  • Worker ants are 18–30 mm long1
  • They are stout and reddish-black1
  • They are wingless and look like wasps1
  • They produce a stridulating (rasping) sound when defending the nest1

Bɔre ahoɔden

Ɛwɔ

Bɔre fi ne dua ano nsɔe (stinger) mu ba.

Ne bɔre yɛ dɛn?

The sting delivers poneratoxin, a paralysing neurotoxic peptide (a small protein that attacks the nerves). It affects sodium ion channels, which are needed to send nerve signals, and blocks signal transmission in the central nervous system. Common symptoms from even one sting include swollen lymph nodes, swelling (oedema), a fast heartbeat (tachycardia) and fresh blood in the faeces.1

Ne asiane ma nnipa te sɛn?

Asiane ma nnipa: Ɛyɛ yawƐtumi yɛ yaw paa, nanso ɛkame ayɛ sɛ ɛnyɛ asiane kɛseɛ da.

The pain is described as burning, throbbing and all-consuming, and it can last for up to 24 hours. Workers are vicious when defending the nest, so people who disturb a nest risk being stung.1

Ɛyɛ dɛn bere a ehu aka no?

The ants are not aggressive in general, but they defend the nest viciously, producing a stridulating sound and stinging with ferocity.1

Sɛ ɛwɔ a

  • Hohoro baabi a ɛwɔɔ no na dwo.
  • Sɛ onipa no ntumi nhome yie, n'anim anaa ne mene mu hono, anaa ɛyɛ no sɛ ɔrebɛtɔ piti a, ɛyɛ allergy ahohiahia: frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma.

Di kan frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911). Yei yɛ mmoa a ɛdi kan ho akwankyerɛ, ɛnyɛ dɔkota afotuo. Mmoa a ɛdi kan ho nsɛm titiriw

Hwɛ wo ho so

  • Mfa wo nsa nka wiram aboa biara, nkyere no na mfa no nni agorɔ, sɛ ɔyɛ ketewa mpo, na sɛ ɛte sɛ ɔrededa anaa wawu mpo a.
  • Ma no kwan. Sɛ wohyia baako a, ma wo bo nnwo, san w'akyi brɛoo na ma ɔnkɔ ne kwan.
  • Sɛ baako wɔ wo a: ma wo bo nnwo, tena dinn, frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911) anaa kɔ ayaresabea ntɛm. Kae sɛdeɛ na ɛte, mfonini bɛboa.

Ɛnhwehwɛ wo sɛ ɛbɛpira wo. Ɛde ne bɔre kyere aduane anaa ɛbɔ ne ho ban, na ɛpɛ sɛ ɛhinta sene biribiara. Nsɛm pii fa ahobammɔ ho

Wiase mu baabi bɛn?

AbibiremAsiaYuropuAmerika AtifiAmerika AnaafoɔAustralia ne Oceania

Ne kɛseɛ te sɛn?

Ne tenten te sɛn?

Bullet ant ne tenten bɛyɛ 3 cm (1,2 in)Paper clip bɛyɛ 3 cm (1,2 in)Smartphone bɛyɛ 15 cm (5,9 in)
ne tenten bɛyɛ sɛ paper clip

Bullet ant kɛseɛ te sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?

Akontabuo kɛkɛ wɔ wo browser mu. Wɔnkora hwee, na wɔmfa hwee nkɔ baabiara.

Ne ntɛm te sɛn?

ɛho hia sɛ wohunu

Nsɛm

1

Its sting is compared to walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail in your heel, and some victims say it feels like being shot, which gives the ant its name.1

2

The Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil use bullet ant stings in initiation rites for becoming warriors or leaders. Ants are sedated and woven into gloves, and the initiate wears them for 5 to 10 minutes or longer.1

3

A flying fly parasite, Apocephalus paraponerae, lays eggs in injured bullet ants, and a crushed ant can attract flies within two to three minutes.1

4

Poneratoxin from its venom is being investigated for possible medical uses.1

5

The glasswing butterfly, Greta oto, is a predator of the bullet ant. Its larvae make chemical extracts that these ants find unpalatable.1

6

Fossils of relatives were found in Dominican amber. The extinct Paraponera dieteri lived 15 to 45 million years ago in the Early Miocene.1

Ma bɔre ho animdefoɔ

Nyansahu din
Paraponera clavata
Kuo
Tɛtea
Abusua
Formicidae2
Nhyehyɛeɛ (Order)
Hymenoptera
Asaase akɛseɛ
Amerika Atifi, Amerika Anaafoɔ
Asiane ma nnipa
2 / 5: Ɛyɛ yaw3

Baabi a nsɛm no fi

  1. Paraponera clavata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Paraponera clavata (iNaturalist): din ne nkyekyɛmu.
  3. Venom Wiki: asiane gyinabea, kɛseɛ a ɛtaa yɛ ne ntɛm susuo no yɛ yɛn ankasa deɛ. Hwɛ sɛdeɛ yɛbu no: Sɛdeɛ yɛkyerɛ asiane gyinabea.

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