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Bullet ant

Paraponera clavata

Tentang namanya: The species name clavata means "club-shaped", and the genus name Paraponera translates to "near-Ponera".1

Hanya sakitSakit, tetapi tidak akan melukaimu dengan serius.

Semut

SengatanMakan: Sedikit dari semuanya

Bahaya bagi manusia: MenyakitkanBisa sangat sakit, tetapi hampir tidak pernah serius.

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

Hidup di

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

Amerika Utara, Amerika Selatan

Beranda

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

Panjang

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

Kecepatan tertinggi

sekitar 0,35 km/jam (0,22 mph)

Di darat, perkiraan kasar

Apa makanannya?

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

Foto Bullet ant — Bullet ant. Foto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Cara mengenalinya

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

Kekuatan bisa

Sengatan

Bisanya keluar lewat sengat.

Apa efek bisanya?

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

Seberapa berbahaya bagi manusia?

Bahaya bagi manusia: MenyakitkanBisa sangat sakit, tetapi hampir tidak pernah serius.

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

Apa yang dilakukannya saat takut?

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

Jika ia menyengat

Cuci dan dinginkan sengatannya.
Jika orangnya sulit bernapas, wajah atau tenggorokannya bengkak, atau merasa mau pingsan, itu darurat alergi: hubungi nomor darurat.

Selalu hubungi nomor darurat dulu (112, 000, 911). Ini panduan pertolongan pertama umum, bukan nasihat medis. Dasar-dasar pertolongan pertama

Tetap aman

Jangan pernah menyentuh, menangkap, atau mengganggu hewan liar, walaupun kecil, dan walaupun tampak tidur atau mati.
Beri ia ruang. Jika bertemu, tetap tenang, mundur perlahan, dan biarkan ia pergi.
Jika ia menyengatmu: tetap tenang, jangan bergerak, hubungi nomor darurat (112, 000, 911) atau segera ke rumah sakit. Ingat seperti apa rupanya, foto sangat membantu.

Ia tidak mengincarmu. Ia memakai bisanya untuk menangkap makanan atau melindungi diri, dan ia jauh lebih suka bersembunyi. Lebih lanjut tentang tetap aman

Di mana di dunia?

Afrika Asia Eropa Amerika Utara Amerika Selatan Australia dan Oseania

Seberapa besar dia?

Seberapa panjang dia?

kira-kira sepanjang penjepit kertas

Seberapa besar Bullet ant dibandingkan KAMU?

Hanya hitungan di browsermu. Tidak ada yang disimpan atau dikirim ke mana pun.

Seberapa cepat dia?

Kura-kura darat sekitar 0,3 km/jam (0,19 mph)

Bullet ant sekitar 0,35 km/jam (0,22 mph)

Orang yang berjalan sekitar 5 km/jam (3,1 mph)

layak diketahui

Fakta

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

Untuk ahli bisa

Nama ilmiah: Paraponera clavata
Kelompok: Semut
Keluarga: Formicidae2
Urutan: Hymenoptera
Benua: Amerika Utara, Amerika Selatan
Bahaya bagi manusia: 2 / 5: Menyakitkan3

Dari mana faktanya berasal

Paraponera clavata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Paraponera clavata (iNaturalist): nama dan klasifikasi.
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