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Florida harvester ant

Pogonomyrmex badius

Hanya sakitSakit, tetapi tidak akan melukaimu dengan serius.

SengatanMakan: Sedikit dari semuanya

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

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

Hidup di

Florida and the Atlantic coastal plain of the eastern United States1

Amerika Utara

Beranda

It nests in well-drained sandy soils in Florida scrub, xeric shrublands, grasslands, woodlands and intact coastal dunes. It prefers open sandy ground with sparse plants that gets full sun, so people are most likely to see its nest mounds in these open sandy areas.1

Panjang

6,3 mm sampai 1,2 cm (0,2 in sampai 0,5 in)1

Kecepatan tertinggi

sekitar 0,16 km/jam (0,1 mph)

Di darat, perkiraan kasar

Apa makanannya?

It eats mainly seeds and insects. Workers prefer protein-rich insect prey over seeds, but seeds wider than 1 to 1.4 mm are too big for workers to crack open.1

Foto Florida harvester ant — Florida harvester ant. Foto: Judy Gallagher. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Cara mengenalinya

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

Kekuatan bisa

Sengatan

Bisanya keluar lewat sengat.

Apa efek bisanya?

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

Seberapa berbahaya bagi manusia?

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

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

Apa yang dilakukannya saat takut?

It stings when it is trapped against the skin, and is otherwise reluctant to sting.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?

cukup kecil untuk duduk di kukumu

Seberapa besar Florida harvester ant dibandingkan KAMU?

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Seberapa cepat dia?

Siput kebun sekitar 0,05 km/jam (0,03 mph)

Florida harvester ant sekitar 0,16 km/jam (0,1 mph)

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

layak diketahui

Fakta

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

Untuk ahli bisa

Nama ilmiah: Pogonomyrmex badius
Kelompok: Semut
Keluarga: Formicidae2
Urutan: Hymenoptera
Benua: Amerika Utara
Anak: 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
Bahaya bagi manusia: 2 / 5: Menyakitkan3

Dari mana faktanya berasal

Pogonomyrmex badius (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Pogonomyrmex badius (iNaturalist): nama dan klasifikasi.
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