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Bullet ant

Paraponera clavata

Waa'ee maqaa: The species name clavata means "club-shaped", and the genus name Paraponera translates to "near-Ponera".1

Ni dhukkubsa qofaNi dhukkubsa, garuu cimsee si hin miidhu.

Goondaa

IddiiNyaata: Waan hundumaa xiqqoo

Balaa namootaaf: Ni dhukkubsaBaay'ee dhukkubsuu danda'a, garuu gonkumaa jechuun ni danda'ama cimaa hin ta'u.

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

Kan jiraatu

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

Ameerikaa Kaabaa, Ameerikaa Kibbaa

Mana

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

Dheerina

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

Ariitii olaanaa

gara 0,35 km/sa'a (0,22 mph)

Lafa irra, tilmaama

Maal nyaata?

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

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

Akkaataa itti beekamu

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

Humna summii

Iddii

Summiin qeensa iddii (stinger) keessaan ba'a.

Summiin isaa (ciniinnaa ykn iddiin) maal godha?

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

Namootaaf hammam balaa qaba?

Balaa namootaaf: Ni dhukkubsaBaay'ee dhukkubsuu danda'a, garuu gonkumaa jechuun ni danda'ama cimaa hin ta'u.

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

Yeroo sodaatu maal godha?

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

Yoo idde

Bakka iddame dhiqiitii qabbaneessi.
Yoo namichi hargansuuf rakkate, fuulli ykn qoonqoon isaa dhiite, ykn of wallaaluuf jedhe, kun balaa tasaa alarjii ti: lakkoofsa balaa tasaa bilbili.

Yeroo hunda dursa lakkoofsa balaa tasaa kee bilbili (112, 000, 911). Kun qajeelfama gargaarsa jalqabaa waliigalaa ti, gorsa yaalaa miti. Bu'uura gargaarsa jalqabaa

Nageenyaan turi

Bineensa bosonaa gonkumaa hin tuqin, hin qabin, hin tuttuqin, xiqqaa ta'us, rafe ykn du'e fakkaatus.
Iddoo itti kenni. Yoo tokko wajjin wal argite, tasgabbaa'i, suuta duubatti deebi'iitii karaa isaa akka deemu dhiisi.
Yoo tokko si idde: tasgabbaa'i, sochii malee turi, lakkoofsa balaa tasaa kee (112, 000, 911) bilbili ykn dafii hospitaala ga'i. Maal akka fakkaatu yaadadhu, suuraan ni gargaara.

Si miidhuuf si hin barbaadu. Summii isaa nyaata qabachuuf ykn of eeguuf fayyadama, dhokachuu immoo baay'ee filata. Waa'ee nageenyaa dabalataan

Addunyaa keessaa eessatti?

Afrikaa Eeshiyaa Awurooppaa Ameerikaa Kaabaa Ameerikaa Kibbaa Awustiraaliyaa fi Oshiyaaniyaa

Hammam guddaa dha?

Dheerinni isaa hammam?

gara dheerina kilippii waraqaa

Bullet ant SI wajjin yoo wal bira qabamu hammam guddaa dha?

Herrega qofa barsiisaa kee keessatti. Homtuu hin olkaa'amu, eessayyuu hin ergamu.

Hammam ariifata?

Elee gara 0,3 km/sa'a (0,19 mph)

Bullet ant gara 0,35 km/sa'a (0,22 mph)

Nama miillaan deemu gara 5 km/sa'a (3,1 mph)

beekuun gaarii dha

Dhugaawwan

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

Ogeeyyii summiitiif

Maqaa saayinsii: Paraponera clavata
Garee: Goondaa
Maatii: Formicidae2
Tartiiba: Hymenoptera
Ardiiwwan: Ameerikaa Kaabaa, Ameerikaa Kibbaa
Balaa namootaaf: 2 / 5: Ni dhukkubsa3

Dhugaawwan eessaa dhufu

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