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Bullet ant

Paraponera clavata

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

Dafay metti rekkDafay metti, waaye du la lor bu bon.

Fourmi yi

Dafay jamDafay lekk: Tuuti ci lépp

Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

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

Dafay dund ci

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

Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar, Amerig gu Bëj-saalum

Kër

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

Guddaay

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

Gaawaay bu gën a kawe

lu tollu ci 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)

Ci suuf, xalaat

Lan lay lekk?

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

Fotoy Bullet ant — Bullet ant. Foto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

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

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay jam

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci ab dag buy jam.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

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

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

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

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

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

Su jamee

Raxas te sedal fa mu jam.
Su nit ki am jafe-jafe ci noyyi, kanamam walla putam funki, walla mu bëgg a xëm, allergie bu metti la (urgence): woo sa nimerob urgence.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
Su benn jamee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Fan ci àddina?

Afrig Asi Tugal Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar Amerig gu Bëj-saalum Ostarali ak Oseyani

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

guddu na lu tollu ci trombone

Bullet ant ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

Ab mbonaat lu tollu ci 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Bullet ant lu tollu ci 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)

Ab nit kuy dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

baax na xam

Xibaar

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

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam: Paraponera clavata
Mbooloo: Fourmi yi
Njaboot: Formicidae2
Toftal: Hymenoptera
Kontinaa yi: Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar, Amerig gu Bëj-saalum
Musiba ci nit: 2 / 5: Dafay metti3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

Paraponera clavata (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Paraponera clavata (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
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