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Florida harvester ant

Pogonomyrmex badius

Kiruma bwokkaKiruma, naye tekijja kukukolako kabi kanene.

KibojjaKirya: Katono ku buli kimu

Akabi eri abantu: Kya bulumiKisobola okuluma ddala, naye kumpi tekiba kya kabi kinene.

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

Kibeera mu

Florida and the Atlantic coastal plain of the eastern United States1

Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono

Awaka

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

Obuwanvu

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

Embiro ezisinga

nga 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Ku lukalu, kuteebereza bwokka

Kirya ki?

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

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

Engeri y'okukitegeera

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

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kibojja

Obusagwa buyita mu ggwa lyakyo eribojja.

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

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

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: Kya bulumiKisobola okuluma ddala, naye kumpi tekiba kya kabi kinene.

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

Kikola ki nga kitidde?

It stings when it is trapped against the skin, and is otherwise reluctant to sting.1

Bwe kibojja

Naaza era onyogoze ebifo ebibojjeddwa.
Omuntu bw'aba nga tassa bulungi, ng'azimbye mu maaso oba mu mumiro, oba ng'awulira ng'agenda kuzirika, buno bubenje bwa alergy obw'amangu: kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
Bw'emu ekubojja: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Wa mu nsi?

Afirika Asiya Bulaaya Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono Amerika ey'Obukiikaddyo Awusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

kitono nnyo nti kisobola okutuula ku lwala lwo

Florida harvester ant kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?

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Kidduka kyenkana wa?

Ekkovu ly'omu nnimiro nga 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Florida harvester ant nga 0,16 km/h (0,1 mph)

Enfuddu nga 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

kirungi okumanya

Ebituufu

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

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi: Pogonomyrmex badius
Ekibinja: Ensanafu
Amaka: Formicidae2
Ensengeka: Hymenoptera
Ssemazinga: Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono
Abaana abawere: 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
Akabi eri abantu: 2 / 5: Kya bulumi3

Ebituufu we biva

Pogonomyrmex badius (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Pogonomyrmex badius (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
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