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Red bull ant

Myrmecia gulosa

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

螫吃：肉

The red bull ant is a large ant that lives in eastern Australia. Adults can give a painful sting, and they are fierce hunters that can overpower bees and other ants. Their large size and aggressive behaviour make them one of Australia's best-known ants.1

分布在

Eastern Australia, mainly coastal Queensland and eastern New South Wales, with records in other Australian states1

澳洲與大洋洲

首頁

They prefer open areas, where they are often seen foraging, and they build small mounds and nests with tunnel systems that can become quite extensive. They are often seen around burnt areas. They have been found from 121 to 2,000 m above sea level.1

長度

1,5 cm 到 3 cm (0,6 in 到 1,2 in)1

最高速度

大約 0,35 km/h（0,22 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

They are solitary predators and hunt prey such as bees and other ants. Adults cannot eat solid food, so they feed on the juices of their prey, while the meat is fed to the colony's larvae. Workers' infertile eggs are also part of their diet and are commonly fed to the queen and larvae.1

Red bull ant 的照片 — Red bull ant。照片：Tony Eales。 CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Adults have a red-brown head and thorax (the middle part of the body).1
The rear half of the abdomen (the back of the body) is black.1
The mandibles (jaws) are brown-yellow and long, powerful and serrated (saw-edged).1
Adults measure about 15 to 30 mm in body length, making them one of the larger ant species.1

毒液力量

螫

毒液從螫針出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

They have a venom-laced sting, which can cause severe pain for a couple of days.1

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

The sting causes severe pain that can last a couple of days. Red bull ants are described as notoriously aggressive hunters.1

如果牠螫人

清洗並冷敷螫傷處。
如果傷者呼吸困難、臉部或喉嚨腫脹，或覺得快要昏倒，這就是過敏急症：打緊急電話。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠螫了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

大約跟一根迴紋針一樣長

Red bull ant 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Red bull ant 大約 0,35 km/h (0,22 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

They cannot smell or use chemical senses like most ants, but their eyesight is extremely keen. They can spot and respond to intruders up to two metres away.1

Workers' infertile eggs are fed to the queen and larvae as part of their diet.1

The first specimen was collected in 1770 by Joseph Banks, making it one of the first Australian insects collected and described by a European.1

Their nests are built with tunnel systems that may become quite large.1