One of the most deadly in the world ants are ants bulldog. The name "bulldog ants" (bulldog ant) is given by their ability to jump into the enemy & provide ungodly painful bite, maybe like a real bulldog. They also often called "bull ant" (bull ant) for a pair of horn-like jaw size. This is the biggest ants man who is known; body length can reach nearly four inches long & sting about half a centimeter! Them widely available in Australia & Tasmania, as well as a small part of New Caledonia New Zealand &
Bulldog ant known to man because of his reputation as "killer ant". Their sting is deadly & supposedly just as deadly with the Japanese giant wasp stings. Those who stung on the body who will be swollen the next & suffered high fever and hypotension (low blood pressure). In the case of people who suffer allergic to ant venom, the effects can be fatal: death! According to one report Discovery Channel's appointee for example, the death rate attributable bulldog ant in Tasmania is higher than mortality caused by the attacks who snakes, spiders, sharks and even though!
As a hunter, bulldog ant can be said as a hunter is perfect. "Hunting Equipment" Their main pair of huge jaws and who sharp sting on the tip of its abdomen. Toxins from their sting is very powerful & in some cases can kill humans. Unlike other ant, bulldog ant has a sharp-eyed that it is helping in the hunt. One species of ant bulldog named "jack jumper ant" can even jump up to 30 cm to pounce on prey & enemy. Their prey varies, ranging from worms, grasshoppers, spiders, even the tough kind of fellow hunter wasps became their target. In addition to eating live animals, bulldog ants also eat carrion & from plant material such as honey or wheat seeds
Unlike most ants, ants bulldog ants who considered selfish. They're just looking to eat & securing its own territory, not clustered like other ants. In hunting, they often fight with other bulldog ant or even fellow members of the colony itself, not wanting to catch their prey "claimed" the other ants. Bulldog ant queens do not get special treatment, so that when he was hungry he must find his own food in the nest. Even if there are any ants bulldog who were attacked, their colony mates will not help, unless he come under attack or the enemy had reached the door of the nest
Bulldog ant colony forming cycle is basically not much different from other ants. The difference from most of the ants is that ants bulldog who do not have a specific mating season. Bulldog ant queen wedded will bring a large number of eggs fertilized bush pockets & sperm from males in the abdomen. Bulldog ants usually choose to make their nests in places such as under rocks or in mounds of loose frontage. The queen later spawned eggs unfertilized & who care for the ant larvae until they become adults. And like most ants, worker ants new-out female ants who are sterile aka barren. Bulldog ant can know up to 3 years old
The unique thing bulldog ants are workers, they can achieve fertility (the fertility or reproductive ability) 90-100 days after she hatched from an egg. Possible to prevent the coup on himself, or so workers are not absent because he wanted to marry, bulldog ant queen will lay eggs remain unfertilized who came out for the ants who keep female - without a single male. If the nest is too dense population, before he fertilize eggs with sperm stored in her body so that the eggs out who will grow into a stud. Females who are ripe and then will "scramble" mating with males, and went out of the nest as the queen to start a new colony
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