Florida harvester ant
The Florida harvester ant is a relatively large ant that lives in the sandy scrub and coastal areas of Florida and the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States. It is the only Pogonomyrmex harvester ant found on the US east coast. Its sting is painful and highly toxic, but the ant is shy and rarely stings unless it is trapped against skin.1

Com reconèixer-lo
- A relatively large harvester ant. Workers range from 6.35 mm to 9.52 mm long.1
- The nest has a flat mound with no plants growing around it, decorated with bits of debris and charred plant matter.1
- Queens and the largest workers, called majors, have disproportionately large heads.1
- It is a highly active ant that is out during the day.1
Poder del verí
El verí surt per un fibló.
Què fa el seu verí?
Its stinger delivers a potent, painful neurotoxic venom, which attacks the nerves. The venom is very toxic: in laboratory tests on mice, the dose that killed half the mice (the LD50) was 0.42 micrograms per gram of body weight, which is comparable to the most toxic snake venoms. Each sting delivers only a small amount of venom.1
Com de perillós és per a les persones?
Perill per a les persones: DolorósPot fer molt de mal, però gairebé mai no és greu.Dozens of stings are needed to cause potential harm to a healthy adult. The ant is docile and reluctant to sting unless forced to, usually when it is trapped against the skin.1
Què fa quan té por?
It stings when it is trapped against the skin, and is otherwise reluctant to sting.1
Si pica
- Renta i refreda les picades.
- Si a la persona li costa respirar, se li infla la cara o la gola, o sent que es mareja, és una emergència al·lèrgica: truca al número d'emergències.
Truca sempre primer al número d'emergències (112, 000, 911). Això són pautes generals de primers auxilis, no consells mèdics. Primers auxilis bàsics
Estigues segur
- No toquis, atrapis ni molestis mai un animal salvatge, encara que sigui petit i encara que sembli adormit o mort.
- Deixa-li espai. Si en trobes un, mantén la calma, recula a poc a poc i deixa que segueixi el seu camí.
- Si te'n pica un: mantén la calma, no et moguis, truca al número d'emergències (112, 000, 911) o ves de pressa a un hospital. Recorda com era, una foto ajuda.
No va a per tu. Fa servir el verí per caçar o per defensar-se, i prefereix mil vegades amagar-se. Més sobre com estar segur
Que gran és?
Quant fa de llarg?
tan petit que cap a la teva unglaQue gran és Florida harvester ant comparat amb TU?
Només càlculs al teu navegador. No es desa ni s'envia res enlloc.
Com de ràpid va?
Dades
Its stinger is barbed. When it stings, the stinger and venom sac can stay stuck in the skin and keep pumping venom, and the ant dies because its insides are damaged when the stinger is pulled out.1
Mature nests are very deep, usually 2.5 to 3.0 metres underground, with seeds stored in large flat granaries about 40 to 100 cm below the surface.1
Unlike most harvester ants, this species often moves its entire nest once a year, relocating about 4 to 10 metres along an established foraging trail.1
A colony must reach about 700 or more workers before it becomes sexually mature and starts producing winged reproductives.1
Mating takes place on the ground. Males fly in from other nests to mate with queens on the surface of the parent nest, while hundreds of workers swarm around the nest.1
Some ants can be infected by a parasitic fungus, Myrmicinosporidium durum, which turns the ant's outer body a near black colour.1
Per a experts en verins
- Nom científic
- Pogonomyrmex badius
- Grup
- Formigues
- Família
- Formicidae2
- Ordre
- Hymenoptera
- Continents
- Amèrica del Nord
- Cries
- A colony starts when a newly mated queen founds a new nest. She does not feed outside the nest, relying on her fat reserves and wing muscles to raise her brood.1
- Perill per a les persones
- 2 / 5: Dolorós3
D'on surten les dades
- Pogonomyrmex badius (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Pogonomyrmex badius (iNaturalist): noms i classificació.
- Venom Wiki: el nivell de perill, la mida típica i la velocitat estimada són nostres. Mira com els calculem: Com valorem el perill.
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