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Florida harvester ant

Pogonomyrmex badius

Irababaza gusaIrababaza, ariko ntizakugirira nabi bikomeye.

Itera uruboriIrya: Bike muri buri kimwe

Akaga ku bantu: IrababazaIshobora kubabaza cyane, ariko hafi ya buri gihe nta kibazo gikomeye biteza.

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

Iba muri

Florida and the Atlantic coastal plain of the eastern United States1

Amerika y'Amajyaruguru

Ahabanza

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

Uburebure

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

Umuvuduko wo hejuru

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

Ku butaka, ikigereranyo cy'ugereranyije

Irya iki?

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

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

Uko wayimenya

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

Imbaraga z'ubumara

Itera urubori

Ubumara busohokera mu rubori.

Ubumara bwayo bukora iki?

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

Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?

Akaga ku bantu: IrababazaIshobora kubabaza cyane, ariko hafi ya buri gihe nta kibazo gikomeye biteza.

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

Ikora iki iyo ifite ubwoba?

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

Niba itera urubori

Oza aho zateye urubori kandi uhakonjeshe.
Niba umuntu ahumeka bimugoye, akabyimba mu maso cyangwa mu muhogo, cyangwa akumva agiye guta ubwenge, ni ikibazo cyihutirwa cya aleriji: hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi.

Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze

Irinde akaga

Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
Niba imwe igutereye urubori: tuza, ntunyeganyege, hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911) cyangwa ujye ku bitaro vuba. Ibuka uko yasaga, ifoto irafasha.

Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Ikoresha ubumara bwayo kugira ngo ifate ibyo kurya cyangwa yirinde, kandi ikunda cyane kwihisha. Ibindi ku kwirinda

Ni hehe ku isi?

Afurika Aziya Uburayi Amerika y'Amajyaruguru Amerika y'Amajyepfo Ositaraliya na Oseyaniya

Ingana gute?

Ireshya ite?

ntoya ku buryo yakwicara ku nzara yawe

Florida harvester ant ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?

Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.

Yihuta gute?

Ikinyamushongo cyo mu murima hafi 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

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

Akanyamasyo hafi 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

bikwiye kumenywa

Ibintu by'ukuri

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 bahanga mu by'ubumara

Izina rya siyansi: Pogonomyrmex badius
Itsinda: Ibimonyo
Umuryango: Formicidae2
Itsinda rinini (order): Hymenoptera
Imigabane: Amerika y'Amajyaruguru
Abana bato: 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
Akaga ku bantu: 2 / 5: Irababaza3

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Pogonomyrmex badius (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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