1. The Explosion Ant (Camponotus saundersi) A soldier ant of a peculiar ant in Malaysia with huge glands containing poisonous gas. When they perceive a dangerous situation, they will gather styrene gas in their bodies, detonating or spewing out poisonous gases. Once captured, they contract their abdomen vigorously, cracking the walls of their bodies and spraying venom onto each other. In order to preserve the group, they sacrifice themselves and act as "bug bombs".
2. Honey ants
A general term for several different insects of the family Formicidae, common to the development of a unique method of storing honeydew (secretions of aphids or mesozoans). Many worker ants feed the honeydew to a worker ant ( for the honey ant ) , and the honeydew is stored in the abdomen of the honey ant , which can swell its volume to several times the size of the normal abdomen. Honey ants are offered to hang on top of an underground nest, sometimes for months. When the colony needs to store food, it stimulates the honey ants to spit out honeydew. Different honey ants appear to have evolved this method of honey storage independently. Honey ants include many genera (such as Melophorus, Leptomyrmex, Plagiolepis, Camponotus, Myrmecocystus, and Prenolepis). Some countries consider honey ants to be delicious, either whole or only on their golden abdomen.
3. Bullet ants
The bullet ant, which is named one of the "top ten most toxic animals in the world", is an outlier of the ant family. From a distance, they look like bees, but they have a strong and powerful upper beam and sharp and poisonous tail spines; Up close, it is an ant that likes to wave a pair of large pincers to show off its might. They are about 3 cm long and about 5 times the size of ordinary ants, making them one of the largest ant species in the world.
The pain of being bitten by a bullet ant is like being hit by a bullet, hence their domineering name. But how many people have actually felt the pain of being hit by a bullet? In order to know what it feels like to be bitten by different insects, American entomologist Justin Schmidt has personally experienced the bite of more than 150 kinds of insects, including bullet ants. In his "Schmidt Pain Index" ranking, the pain index after being bitten by a bullet ant ranks first.
Justin Schmidt describes it this way: "It feels like a rusty nail stuck in the heel of a foot and then walking barefoot on fiery red charcoal." Under normal circumstances, being bitten by one or two bullet ants will not hurt your life, but the pain will spread rapidly, and sometimes even if your hand is bitten, your shoulder will hurt, and even your entire arm may not be able to move for several hours. It is worth noting that if it is bitten by many bullet ants, it can be life-threatening.
4. Spear ants
African insects of the Hymenoptera family Formicidae and the dorylinae are characterized by alternating cycles of safari life and settled life during spawning. During the safari period, the colony moves to a new point every day, and eats things (including snakes, birds, beasts, and even people) on the road. The palate is powerful and can tear the trap. Foraging also climbs trees or shrubs. The African spear ant resembles the Army Ant of the New World (Eciton). Spear ants are African insects of the Formicidae subfamily Do rylinae, the most notorious of the more than 8,000 known ant species, and rulers of the rainforests of the Americas.
In the Heated Belt Rainforest of The Costani, Mexico, it is not difficult to see the following scene: a large cockroach as large as a house mouse
Mantises, extremely poisonous scorpions, fur-covered Tarantula poisonous spiders, as well as turtles, snakes, lizards and other scattered escape. With a burst of sour smell, a black pressed army ant group at least 15 meters wide, with a terrifying sound and a strange speed, had arrived in the blink of an eye.
Military ants are murderous animals, and they do not build fixed nests to facilitate mass killing. On weekdays, the queues run rampant in the rainforest area, and wherever the mighty army goes, all insects and invertebrates can rarely steal life. When the vanguard caught the prey that was thousands of times larger than them, the main army arrived at the first time, and the prey was immediately submerged in the vast sea of ants, and the chance of survival was zero.
Among the dozens of species of military ants, most of them have no eyes, and some have two single eyes, which are not strong in discernment and can only detect the transformation of light. However, the military ant has a coarse stinging needle, and the military ant will also spew out poisonous ant acid, which is similar to spider venom, in addition to making the prey unable to move, it can also dissolve them into a semi-liquid state, which is easy to swallow.
The spear ants are no less fierce and bloodthirsty than the military ants, they are also active in the rainforest and are the best snipers. Although they have no eyes and no stinging needles, their upper and lower jaws are more powerful than those of military ants.
Military ants cannot kill large vertebrates, but spear ants can. A cow tethered to a tree is often the target of spear ants. Spear ants burrow into the cow's body from the cow's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose in swarms, cutting within five of them. Within a few weeks, only a pair of white bones remained of a cow. A chicken, on the other hand, can only serve as food for spear ants for two days. Humans have also died under the poisonous kiss of spear ants, but this only occasionally occurs in unconscious people or young children who do not know how to defend themselves. Strictly speaking, the methods of their harm are really different than if... The red fire ant is still a small Case
5. All-alien giant ant
The all-heterogeneous giant ant is a class of ants with a high degree of evolution and a very clear division of labor. Taxonomic orders: Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ant family, Leafcutter subfamily, Macrocephalus. Its body length varies from 15.7 to 2.7 mm, its body is dark chestnut brown, and the type of occupational ants varies greatly. Among them, the largest soldier ant head in one eye. It is found in Hainan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macao, as well as Southeast Asia.
The queen is larger, has specialized grade soldier ants, has a single eye, and the size of worker ants and soldier ants is very different, and it is generally not easy to see specialized grade soldier ants, so it is easy to be generally supervised
Get confused with big-headed house ants. Ferocious, without ant acid, with strong bite as the main attack force, being bitten by specialized soldier ants, to ensure that your skin is open and fleshy.
6. Bulldog ant
Myremecia is an ant commonly known as the Bull-headed Dog Ant, Bull Ant, Inch Ant, Sergeant Ant, Jack Jumping Ant or Jumping Bug Jack (usually referred to as its genus Myremecia pilosula). Bulldog ants can grow up to 40 mm (1.6 in) in length, and the smallest breeds also have 15 mm (0.59 in). Almost all of the approximately 90 species of bulldog ants live in Australia, with the exception of Myremecia apicalis, which appear in New Caledonia (located in the South Pacific).
7. Marching ants
Army Ant is also known as "Army Ant". Mainly living in the Amazon River Basin, like group life, generally a group of one or two million. They belong to the migratory class of ants, unlike ordinary ants, do not build nests at all, from birth is constantly moving, finding prey, eating prey. This kind of ant has a strong jaw, the bite force is much stronger than the average ant, when preying, they will form different offensive groups to fight together, just like the professional soldiers with strong armed forces, hence the name. While searching for prey, larger marching ants will stand near the marching ant army to protect the army. The attack of the marching ant will have some benefits for the forest, and the area after the attack will become a suitable place for animals to live
8. Slender-footed swift ants
First found in Africa, the Slender-footed Swift Ant is a dangerous invasive organism that has been listed by the IUCN as one of the 00 most destructive creatures as human commercial cargo activities have spread across the globe.
They invade cities and agro-ecosystems, can have catastrophic ecological consequences in invaded areas, and they can quickly destroy local biodiversity and reduce their ecological resilience. In China they are already distributed in Guangdong, Yunnan, Fujian and Hainan. Taiwan, Hong Kong, > Macao, it is estimated that a considerable number of provinces and ports have been affected.
The ecological environment of the slender-footed swift ant is one of the number one killers and the second pest of agriculture. Although it has been suggested that fine-footed ants can increase crop yields by catching farmland pests, they nest under crops to destroy plant roots, and they spray formic acid to cause damage to the skin and eyes of agricultural workers. The variety of recipes is widespread, initially called "scavengers" and later "nomadic hunters". They catch equipods, polypods, mollusks, spiders, insects and even large, ground-feeding spiders, birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. They are also a source of honey, and they get food from the flowers and leaves that secrete honeydew. [1]
In addition, the slender-footed swift ants also raise aphids and suck the honeydew secreted by aphids, causing large areas of tropical trees to die.
8. Leafcutter ants
Leafcutter Ant cuts leaves from trees and other plants and uses them to grow fungi. They feed the larvae with fungi that grow out (adults mainly suck the juice of the leaves that they chop). The ants capable of cutting leaves are actually only 38 of the 2 genera of ants (Atta and Acromyrmex). Leafcutter ants are very special species that have co-evolved with other species. This process took place 50 million years ago, when these ants relied on plants for food (References, 1996). At that time, the bacteria of the genus lacked the ability to produce spores, so ants used them as their main food. This is just a guess, leafcutter ants have preserved the strain for more than 25 million years, which means they have been passing on the bacteria for so many years. Leafcutter ants have a special habit of breeding mushrooms, they are not distinguished as other exclusive ants, but are considered to be closer to harvest ants.
9. Yellow fox ant
Yellow ant, also known as yellow orange ant, mangrove ant, is widely distributed in southern China. Yellow lynx ants are arboreal ant species that use larvae to roll up fresh leaves to form "ant packs" to roost, and large colonies of yellow ants generally have multiple sub-nests. The yellow fox ant is fierce and good at preying on various insects, so it is often used for biological control in agricultural production.
Yellow ants are light in posture, predatory unity, and there are many points to watch in breeding, so they have become a rising star in the Chinese pet ant industry, and many domestic pet ant players have begun to raise yellow ants as ornamental pets.
Yellow fox ant large worker ant body length 9. 5 to 11. 0 mm. The body rust is red, sometimes orange-red. There are very fine soft hairs all over the body. Erect hairs are rare and limited to the hind ventral end. The body has a weak luster. Small worker ant body length 7. 0-8. 0 mm. Similar to large worker ants , but not as strong as large worker ants , the base of the lip is more convex , and the lateral view of the dorsal plate of the forebreast is more convex. Female ants are 15. 0-18. 0mm。 Sporty yellow, but earthy yellow after soaking in alcohol for too long. The palate is wider; the head has 3 protruding one-eyed; and the antennal stalk nodes are shorter and thicker than those of worker ants. And the ventral thorax is thick; the mid-thoracic shield and the small shield are flat; and the thoracic ventral segment has a short basal surface and a longer bevel. The nodules are thick, wedge-shaped, gradually thinning upwards, and the apex is deeply concave in the center. The posterior abdomen is large and broadly ovate. The feet are short and thick. The rest resemble worker ants. Male ant body length 6. 0-7. 0mm。 The body is brownish black. It has a rich reddish-brown soft coat. The head is small; the palate is narrow and the chewing edge teeth are not obvious; the antennae are 13 segments.
10. Pharaoh ants
Pharaoh ants, one of the world's most difficult domestic pests to deal with and eradicate, have become notorious for not only stealing food, but also soiling food and spreading bacteria and viruses that induce a variety of diseases, including polio and streptococcal and staphylococcal infectious diseases. They even haunt hospitals, burrow under the patient's bandage, and seriously endanger the health of patients, so people still call them "killer ants" and "urban killers". Before 150-200 years, European city dwellers never imagined that there was such an insect in the world. In the middle of the 19th century, the situation changed. Through the sailing caravans at sea, followed by the steam turbine fleet, these little ants bid farewell to their homeland and came to England. From this time on, Pharaoh Ants began a global march along with goods on trains, cars, and planes. In October 2000, hundreds of millions of pharaonic ants arrived in Berlin, Germany, via fruit crates imported from the Far East, and in June 2001, the little ones disturbed the sleep of residents of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, China. Due to the ongoing high temperature and drought, the breeding rate of Pharaoh ants has accelerated. People feel itchy at night when they go to bed, so they have to get up and catch them, but this time they did not come with fruit boxes, but were introduced to China from North Africa through building materials. At this point, Pharaoh ants have spread all over the world and live in the building, and these guys have brought a lot of inconvenience to the owners.
Pharaoh ants show unimaginable endurance in choosing their nests: they cannot come up with any conditions other than a certain requirement for darkness, warmth and humidity. They never built nests, and they could shelter by finding a groove in the foundation of a heated building, between brick and cement blocks, or between a wall and a floor. Ant nests are often found in cardboard boxes, under window sill panels or furniture that are rarely moved. No matter where the nest is located, Pharaoh ants will always find their way to food. They rely on the smell to find the roads that they cannot see with their eyes, and these roads are in all directions, tens or hundreds of meters long. Its small stature and strong mouth allow this scheming insect to reach anywhere. Whether it's a plastic bag or a refrigerator door, it's hard to be an obstacle on their way to food. They can be seen in hospital surgical instruments, droppers, and even bandage boxes. In addition to meat and dairy products, they eat vegetable oils, grains, sugar, toothpaste, soap and even shoe polish. They can successfully eat other insects and also attack hives, eating honey, larvae and pupae. Pharaoh ants are incredibly tolerant, and they can go 8 months without eating or drinking.
11. Jumping ants
Jumping ants were one of the first ant species to have a genetic sequence.
Jumping ants are highly social insects that communicate with each other through pheromones emitted by their bodies. When the jumping ants find food, they will spread pheromones on the food, and other jumping ants will instinctively drag the pheromones back into the hole. When the jumping ant dies, its pheromones are still there, and when other jumping ants pass by, they will be attracted to the pheromones, but the dead jumping ants will not communicate information with each other (touching each other's tentacles) like a living jumping ant, so its pheromone-bearing corpse will be carried back as food by its companions. Usually, such corpses will not be eaten as food, because in addition to pheromones, each nest of jumping ants has its own specific recognition odor, and things with the same smell will not be attacked, which is the basis for the nest of jumping ants to cooperate well.
12. Matabelle ants
Matabelle ant (Latin name: Megaponera analis) is an ant living in Africa, the whole body is black, the tail needle is very toxic, even humans can not withstand its stings, severe dizziness, nausea, spasms and other symptoms, and even life-threatening, they are the natural enemies of African termites. The Matabelle ant is about 20 mm long and is one of the largest ants in the world.
Matabelle ants will attack the termite nest, an ant will find the termite nest, it will secrete chemical information, 50 million ants will kill the termite nest at the same time, any creature that stands in the way will undoubtedly die, except for humans.
The Matabelle ant will attack humans in front of the termite nest, and thousands of ants will simultaneously inject highly venom, the most poisonous ant toxin in the world, which will kill people within 2 minutes. After poisoning, anaphylactic shock occurs, resulting in difficulty breathing, severe pain, heart failure, unless injected with epinephrine within 2 minutes, it is inevitable to die. Ironically, Venom is not the murderer, the real killer is anaphylactic shock.
The Matabelle ant kills nearly a hundred tourists and scientists who visit termite dens each year.
Cephalotini is strictly an arboreal ant belonging to the New World (American continent) that nests on live or dead trunks. All species have heavy armor, and their main feature is a flat dorsal abdomen. These ants have flat heads and are accustomed to passive defense, and when invaded, they use their own heads to plug holes to block the attack, sometimes releasing chemicals that make enemies think they are not "tasty". They are relatively peaceful, not aggressive, and generally live near some of the more aggressive ants. They are community sizes of turtles and ants, ranging from as small as a dozen workers (e.g., C. texanus) to tens of thousands of workers (e.g., C. atratus).
13. Big-toothed mammoth ants
The macrolodonted ant, also known as the "trapped jaw ant", its scientific name is "Odontomachus bauri", a class of insects in the genus Macronodonidae. Its upper and lower jaws are among the fastest closed carnivores in nature. Studies have shown that the speed of upper and lower jaw closure can reach 126-230 km / h.
The latest scientific research suggests that the Big-toothed Raptor is the fastest-aggressive animal on Earth. It can bite its prey in 0.13 milliseconds, 2300 times faster than a human blink. Not only that, when encountering danger, the force generated by the big-toothed ant when it closes its mouth can also take itself to an "altitude" of 8 centimeters and land in a safe area 40 centimeters away. Compared to other macrolodonted moths, the palate is relatively flattened.