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Bullet ant

Paraponera clavata

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

InongorwadzaInorwadza, asi haizokukuvadza zvakanyanya.

Masvosve

InobayaInodya: Zvishoma zvezvose

Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.

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

Inogara mu

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

Amerika yeKuchamhembe, Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba

Kumba

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

Kureba

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

Kumhanya kukuru

kunenge 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)

Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira

Inodya chii?

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

Mufananidzo waBullet ant — Bullet ant. Mufananidzo: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Maziviro ayo

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

Simba reuturu

Inobaya

Uturu hunobuda nerumbori.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

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

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.

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

Inoitei kana yatya?

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

Kana ikabaya

Geza pakabayiwa wotonhodza.
Kana munhu achinetseka kufema, chiso kana huro zvichizvimba, kana achinzwa kunge ofenda, ndiyo njodzi yeallergy: fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi.

Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga

Gara wakachengeteka

Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
Kana imwe ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.

Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka

Kupi pasi rose?

Afrika Asia Yuropu Amerika yeKuchamhembe Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba Australia neOceania

Yakakura sei?

Yakareba zvakadii?

inenge kureba sechibatanidzo chemapepa

Bullet ant yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.

Inomhanya zvakadii?

Kamba kunenge 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Bullet ant kunenge 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)

Munhu achifamba kunenge 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

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

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi: Paraponera clavata
Boka: Masvosve
Mhuri: Formicidae2
Odha: Hymenoptera
Makondinendi: Amerika yeKuchamhembe, Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
Ngozi kuvanhu: 2 / 5: Inorwadza3

Kwakabva chokwadi

Paraponera clavata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Paraponera clavata (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
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