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Jack jumper ant

Myrmecia pilosula

Ka ga leina: 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 tlhoka ngakaGa e bolaye gantsi, mme go tlhabiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka.

Ditshoswane

Go tlhabaE ja: Dikhukhwane

Kotsi go batho: E masisiGo tlhabiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka. Go swa go seoka thata.

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 tshela kwa

Australia, mostly Tasmania and south-east mainland; widespread in most of Australia; not verified in the Northern Territory1

Australia le Oceania

Gae

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

Boleele

1,1 cm go ya go 1,6 cm (0,4 in go ya go 0,6 in)1

Lebelo le le kwa godimo

e ka nna 0,19 km/h (0,12 mph)

Mo lefatsheng, kakanyo fela

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

Setshwantsho sa Jack jumper ant — Jack jumper ant. Setshwantsho: Tony Eales. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Tsela ya go e lemoga

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

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

Maatla a botlhole

Go tlhaba

Botlhole bo tswa ka lemao le le tlhabang.

Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?

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 go le kae go batho?

Kotsi go batho: E masisiGo tlhabiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka. Go swa go seoka thata.

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 dira eng fa e tshogile?

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

Fa e tlhaba

For people prone to severe allergic reactions, the treatment is allergen immunotherapy, also called desensitisation.1
Tlhatswa le go tsidifatsa mafelo a a tlhabilweng.
Fa motho a hema ka bothata, sefatlhego kgotsa mometso o ruruga, kgotsa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshoganyetso ya aletshi: leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso.

Ka gale leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Se ke kaelo e e akaretsang ya thuso ya ntlha, ga se kgakololo ya bongaka. Motheo wa thuso ya ntlha

Nna o babalesegile

O se ka wa ama, wa tshwara kgotsa wa tshwenya phologolo ya naga, le fa e le e nnye, le fa e lebega e robetse kgotsa e sule.
E fe sebaka. Fa o kopana le yone, ritibala, boela morago ka bonya mme o e tlogele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yone.
Fa e nngwe e go tlhaba: ritibala, o se ka wa tshikinyega, leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso (112, 000, 911) kgotsa o ye bookelong ka bonako. Gopola gore e ne e lebega jang, setshwantsho se a thusa.

Ga e go batle. E dirisa botlhole jwa yone go tshwara dijo kgotsa go itshireletsa, mme e rata go iphitlha go feta. Go le gontsi ka go nna o babalesegile

Kae mo lefatsheng?

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E kgolo go le kae?

E telele go le kae?

khutshwane go feta monwana wa gago o monnye

Jack jumper ant e kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?

Ke dipalo fela mo sefetleng sa gago (browser). Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.

E bonako go le kae?

Kgopa ya tshingwana e ka nna 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Jack jumper ant e ka nna 0,19 km/h (0,12 mph)

Khudu e ka nna 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

go botlhokwa go itse

Dintlha

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

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

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

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

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

Ya baitseanape ba botlhole

Leina la saense: Myrmecia pilosula
Setlhopha: Ditshoswane
Lelapa: Formicidae2
Lekoko: Hymenoptera
Dikontinente: Australia le Oceania
Kotsi go batho: 3 / 5: E masisi3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

Jack jumper ant (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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