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Jack jumper ant

Myrmecia pilosula
Ka lebitso: The specific name pilosula comes from the Latin word pilosa, meaning 'covered with soft hair'. The common name 'jack jumper' comes from its jumping motion.1
E hloka ngakaHa e atise ho bolaya, empa ho hlajwa ho hloka ngaka.
Bohlwa Ho hlabaE ja: Dikokoanyana
Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo hlajwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

The jack jumper ant is a venomous ant native to Australia. It is most common in Tasmania and south-east mainland Australia, and it is known for jumping long distances when it is disturbed. Its sting is usually mild, but it is one of the few ants that can be dangerous to people.1

E phela
Australia, mostly Tasmania and south-east mainland; widespread in most of Australia; not verified in the Northern Territory1
Australia le Oceania
Lapeng
Jack jumper ants live in open places such as gardens, lawns, pastures, woodlands and dry open forests, usually on fine gravel and sandy soil. In suburbs they build nests in rockeries, cracks in concrete walls and grass, and they are less common in urban areas.1
Bolelele
1,1 cm ho isa ho 1,6 cm (0,4 in ho isa ho 0,6 in)1
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 0,19 km/h (0,12 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
E ja eng?
Jack jumper ants prey on small insects. They kill other insects by injecting venom through a barbless stinger. Their food also includes nectar.1
Ka nnete!Foto ya Jack jumper ant
Jack jumper ant. Foto: Tony Eales. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • Black or blackish-red body, sometimes with yellow or orange legs1
  • Antennae, lower legs and mandibles (jaws) are yellow or orange1
  • Workers are medium-sized, about 12 to 14 mm long1
  • Grey, short hair on the body, longer on the back part of the abdomen1
  • Leaps about 51 to 76 mm when disturbed, and forms mounds of gravel and soil as nests1

Hangata e ferekanngwa le: Other Myrmecia ants, such as M. nigrocincta, also jump when disturbed, so jumping alone does not identify this species.1

Matla a chefo

Ho hlaba

Chefo e tswa ka lemao le hlabang.

Chefo ya yona (eo e e kenyang ka ho loma kapa ho hlaba) e etsang?

The venom is unusually likely to cause allergy for an insect venom. In most people a sting causes only a mild reaction at the site. In people who are allergic, it can cause anaphylaxis, a severe whole-body reaction with a faster heart rate and falling blood pressure.1

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo hlajwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

Most stings cause only a mild local reaction, but the jack jumper is one of the few ants that can be dangerous to humans. The venom causes about 90% of ant allergies in Australia. In areas where it lives, up to 3% of people may be allergic, and about half of those can have anaphylaxis, which rarely leads to death. Between 1980 and 2000, four people died from anaphylaxis caused by jack jumper stings, all in Tasmania.1

E etsang ha e tshohile?

When disturbed, they become aggressive towards humans, and they can see and follow an intruder from about 1 m away.1

Haeba e hlaba

  • For people prone to severe allergic reactions, the treatment is allergen immunotherapy, also called desensitisation.1
  • Hlatswa moo e hlabileng teng mme o pholise.
  • Haeba motho a hema ka thata, sefahleho kapa qoqotho di ruruha, kapa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshohanyetso ya aletjhi (allergy): letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso.

Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele

Dula o bolokehile

  • O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
  • E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
  • Haeba e nngwe e o hlaba: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.

Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

Jack jumper ant bolelele ba e ka bang 1,6 cm (0,6 in)Thollo ya raese e ka bang 7 mm (0,3 in)Tjhelete ya tshepe ya euro e le nngwe e ka bang 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
e kgutshwane ho feta monwana wa hao o monyenyane

Jack jumper ant e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?

Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.

E potlaka hakae?

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

1

Their leaps are about 51 to 76 mm, which is a long jump for an ant of this size.1

2

They decorate their nests with seeds, soil, charcoal, stones, sticks and small dead invertebrates, which help trap the sun's warmth.1

3

William Morton Wheeler compared them to 'Lilliputian cavalry galloping to battle' when they were disturbed.1

4

Workers are gamergates, so they can reproduce with males whether or not a queen is present in the colony.1

5

Rove beetles of the genus Heterothops often live in jack jumper nests and raise their young there.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Myrmecia pilosula
Sehlopha
Bohlwa
Lelapa
Formicidae2
Tatelano
Hymenoptera
Dikontinente
Australia le Oceania
Kotsi ho batho
3 / 5: E tebileng3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Jack jumper ant (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Myrmecia pilosula (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
  3. Venom Wiki: boemo ba kotsi, boholo bo tlwaelehileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kamoo re di balang ka teng: Kamoo re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.

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