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Bullet ant

Paraponera clavata

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

Naanị na-afụ ụfụỌ na-afụ ụfụ, mana ọ gaghị emerụ gị ahụ nke ukwuu.

Arụrụ

ỊgbaNri ya: Ntakịrị ihe niile

Ihe ize ndụ nye mmadụ: Na-afụ ụfụỌ nwere ike ịfụ ụfụ nke ukwuu, mana ọ naghị adịkarị njọ.

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

Ebe obibi

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

Ugwu Amerika, Ndịda Amerika

Ụlọ

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

Ogologo

1.8 cm ruo 3 cm (0.7 in ruo 1.2 in)1

Ọsọ kacha elu

ihe dị ka 0.35 km/h (0.22 mph)

N'elu ala, nchepụta

Gịnị ka ọ na-eri?

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.

Otú ị ga-esi mata ya

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

Ike nsị

Ịgba

Nsị na-esi na ndụdụ ya apụta.

Gịnị ka nsị ọ na-agba na-eme?

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

Kedu otú o si dị egwu nye mmadụ?

Ihe ize ndụ nye mmadụ: Na-afụ ụfụỌ nwere ike ịfụ ụfụ nke ukwuu, mana ọ naghị adịkarị njọ.

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

Gịnị ka ọ na-eme mgbe ụjọ tụrụ ya?

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

Ọ bụrụ na ọ gbaa

Saa ebe ọ gbara, mee ka ha jụọ oyi.
Ọ bụrụ na o siri onye ahụ ike iku ume, ihu ya ma ọ bụ akpịrị ya na-aza, ma ọ bụ na ọ dị ya ka ọ ga-ada mbà, ọ bụ mberede allergy: kpọọ nọmba mberede gị.

Na-ebu ụzọ kpọọ nọmba mberede gị mgbe niile (112, 000, 911). Nke a bụ ndụmọdụ enyemaka mbụ n'ozuzu, ọ bụghị ndụmọdụ ọgwụ. Isi ihe enyemaka mbụ

Nọrọ na nchekwa

Emetụla anụ ọhịa aka, ejidela ya, emekwala ya ihe ọjọọ, ọbụna obere, ọbụna ma ọ dị ka ọ na-ehi ụra ma ọ bụ nwụọ anwụ.
Nye ya ohere. Ọ bụrụ na ị zutere otu, dị jụụ, laghachi azụ nwayọ, hapụ ya ka ọ gaa ụzọ ya.
Ọ bụrụ na otu gbaa gị: dị jụụ, emegharịla ahụ, kpọọ nọmba mberede gị (112, 000, 911) ma ọ bụ gaa ụlọ ọgwụ ngwa ngwa. Cheta ka o si dị, foto na-enye aka.

Ọ naghị achụ gị. Ọ na-eji nsị ya ejide nri ma ọ bụ chebe onwe ya, ọ ga-akakwa mma n'anya ya ịzo onwe ya. Ihe ndị ọzọ gbasara ịnọ na nchekwa

Ebee n'ụwa?

Afrịka Eshia Yurop Ugwu Amerika Ndịda Amerika Ọstrelia na Oshenia

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Mbe ihe dị ka 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)

Bullet ant ihe dị ka 0.35 km/h (0.22 mph)

Mmadụ na-aga ije ihe dị ka 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

ọ dị mma ịmara

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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

Maka ndị ọkachamara nsị

Aha sayensị: Paraponera clavata
Otu: Arụrụ
Ezinụlọ: Formicidae2
Usoro: Hymenoptera
Kọntinent dị iche iche: Ugwu Amerika, Ndịda Amerika
Ihe ize ndụ nye mmadụ: 2 / 5: Na-afụ ụfụ3

Ebe eziokwu ndị a si

Paraponera clavata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Paraponera clavata (iNaturalist): aha na nhazi ọkwa.
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