The most dangerous ants in the world
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- Nomadic killer ants
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- Ants Bulldogs
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- Red fire ant
Ants are these tiny laborers who have always admired and amazed people. Insects are able to organize their work to the smallest detail. And each inhabitant of the anthill is assigned its duties. In nature, there are more than 14,000 species of these insects. And not all of them are helpful. There are killer ants representing a serious danger to human life. It is about them that will be discussed in this article.
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Insects with a bloodthirsty temper include fire and nomadic ants, bullet ant and Australian bulldog ant. Ant bites able to provoke an allergic reaction, the result of which could be suffocation and lethal intoxication of the body.
Nomadic killer ants
Nomad ants, or as they are called the Siafu ants, are insects that are used to roam. They are not engaged in the construction of anthills, but prefer to travel from one territory to another in a large column. That is why they are also called stray killer ants.
The width of a string of insects can be more than ten meters. Towards the end, the column narrows and becomes like a tail with a length of up to 45 m. Stray ants usually make such marches during the daylight hours, overcoming about 300 meters in an hour's journey. Their habitat is Africa, North and South America, Central and South Asia.
During the movement of nomadic ants, everyone they meet on their way disappears. It can be not only woodlice, caterpillars or running beetles.African killer ants can easily attack even small animals: a mouse, a snake, a frog or a lizard. Man, however, cannot eat them anyway. But the consequence of an extremely painful bite of a nomadic ant can be a strong allergic reaction.
The nomads became famous not only for their formidable temper, but also for their size, which allowed them to occupy one of the top positions in the ranking. the largest ants in the world. Nomadic ants soldiers, responsible for the protection of their relatives, usually go to the edge of the column. These are rather large insects whose body length reaches up to 15 mm. The jaws, the size of which is much larger than the head of a nomad, make them look awesome. The female is much larger than the male: the length of her body during the laying of eggs is up to 50 mm. The photo of the nomad is presented below.
In the middle part of the string, nomadic workers move on their bodies who carry the future offspring and food. With the arrival of night, insects, clinging to each other with their paws, build a nest for their Queen of the Womb.
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Huge body size is not the only feature of ant nomadic females.Females are also champions during breeding periods. Every day they lay 100-130 thousand eggs. A more prolific insect does not exist in nature.
Ants Bulldogs
Ants Bulldogs - These are the most dangerous ants in the world. Black insects are considered one of the largest. The body size of the working bulldog reaches a length of up to 40 mm, the uterus is slightly larger - about 45 mm. A feature of these representatives are powerful jaws. They are rather long and have notches along the edge, which allows insects to easily catch prey. Below in the photo you can see what a dangerous termite looks like.
Ants bulldogs are poisonous ants. Another feature of these insects is a powerful sting, the bite of which can be fatal. So a person who is located next to an anthill exposes himself to great danger. After all, at the entrance to anthill usually several workers are on duty. If there is danger, they immediately signal this to their relatives.
According to statistics, the bites of these cannibals kill a lot more people than from attacks of snakes, spiders and even sharks.
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The fact that ants bulldogs are capable of carrying the load 50 times more than their own weight is also surprising.
Red fire ant
Representatives of this species have a bright color, which served as the basis for their name. As a result of the bite fire ant Sinopsin, a toxic substance causing a severe chemical burn, penetrates the human body. The pain of a pest bite is identical to an open flame burn. The consequence of such a skin lesion usually becomes an allergic reaction, and anaphylactic shock is possible.
Insects usually attack a person with a whole group if it is dangerous for their anthill. From the merciless pest bites every year not one thousand people suffer. After the bite, blisters and swelling appear on the body of the victim, from which scars form after a few days. Nausea and vomiting, dizziness and allergic reaction.
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The habitat of such a termite is the territory of America. In recent years, you can meet a fire ant killer in Russia.
Ants bullet
Ant bullet - insects have received such name because of the behavior. During an insect bite, a person feels an unbearable pain, commensurate with a gunshot wound. The poison of this species contains ponratoksin - a toxic substance that causes severe pain. Usually pain persists throughout the day. As a result, another name “ant 24 hours” stuck to the insects. During this time, the victim suffers in agony, accompanied by unbearable pain and cramps.
The body length of workers usually does not exceed 25 mm, the uterus is slightly larger (up to 30 mm). Distributed by representatives of this species in South America. The favorite place of their habitat are the trees, from the crown of which the pests attack their prey. Falling from the branches, they emit a kind of squeak, which serves as a signal for their relatives. As a result, the victim is attacked by not one, not even ten individuals, but a whole ant colony.
Yellow ants
Yellow ants also belong to one of the most poisonous insect species in the world. You can only meet them in Arizona. The consequence of ant bites is not only the formation of a largeswelling and the development of allergies, but also the probability of death of a person. In the Russian latitudes there are also yellow antsHowever, this is a completely different kind - Lasius Flavus, which migrated from India in the 19th century.
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