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Bullet ant

Paraponera clavata

Ko faati e innde ndee: The species name clavata means "club-shaped", and the genus name Paraponera translates to "near-Ponera".1

Ina muusi tanIna muusi, kono ɓetataa ma no feewi.

Furmiiji

JukkugolIna ñaama: Seeɗa e kala huunde

Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

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

Ina wuuri e

Central and South America, from Honduras and El Salvador south to Brazil and Bolivia1

Amerik Rewo, Amerik Worgo

Hello arano

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

Juuteendi

1,8 cm haa 3 cm (0,7 in haa 1,2 in)1

Yaawde ɓurnde

hedde 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)

E leydi yoornde, miijo

Hol ko ngal ñaamata?

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

No anndirte ngal

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

Doole tooke

Jukkugol

Tooke ngal ina yaltira jukkirgal.

Hol ko tooke ŋatgol mum waɗata?

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

Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?

Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

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

Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?

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

So ina jukka

Loot nokkuuje jukkaaɗe ɗee, ɓuuɓnu ɗe.
So neɗɗo oo ina tampa e foofaade, yeeso walla daande mum ina ufoo, walla ina yiɗi yanaade, ɗum ko urgence allergi: noddu nimero urgence.

Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal

Reen hoore maa

Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
So gooto jukkii ma: deƴƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911) walla yahu opitaal law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal ina walla.

Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Ina huutoroo tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reenaade, ina ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo

Hol to e aduna?

Afrik Aazi Orop Amerik Rewo Amerik Worgo Ostaraali e Oseyaani

Hol no mawniri?

Hol no juutiri?

hedde juutde no ñippirde kaayitaaje

Hol no Bullet ant mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?

Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.

Hol no yaawiri?

Heende hedde 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Bullet ant hedde 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)

Neɗɗo yahoowo e koyɗe hedde 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

moƴƴi anndude

Humpito

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal: Paraponera clavata
Fedde: Furmiiji
Ɓesngu: Formicidae2
Ordre: Hymenoptera
Leyɗe mawɗe: Amerik Rewo, Amerik Worgo
Bone e yimɓe: 2 / 5: Muusɗo3

Ɗo humpito iwri

Paraponera clavata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Paraponera clavata (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
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