When you can't forget the fish in one bite, you won't forget this delicious taste in your life, on the contrary, if you let the bullet ant bite, you can't forget the feeling for the rest of your life! Don't be afraid, although it claims to be the world's top ten most toxic animals, but after being bitten by bullet ants, it will not poison to death, it will only produce the same pain as the bullet penetrating the body, 24 hours will eliminate that feeling, this is also the origin of its name, see here, have you already felt the horror of bullet ants? But what is the reason why the Amazon generation must go through its bite in their lifetime, otherwise it will be incomplete?
Bullet ants belong to one of the four major killers in the ant family, although not as cruel as man-eating ants, but in the ant family has the strongest toxin, when they encounter the other three major ant killers, they will not be easy to be soft, directly look at the timing to attack, the final result is often bullet ants can win.
Bullet ants are a kind of parapamanra genus of the subfamily pseudomorphant, living in the Amazon region of Central and South America all year round, the appearance is somewhat similar to wasps, even after so many years, it has not changed, many people see it at first glance think it is a wasp, in fact, it is not, they have a pair of large pincers, normal body length of about 3 cm, although not very large, but also in the ant family also belongs to the behemoth, when encountering opponents, will wave the pair of large pincers, Directly use the poisonous needle in the tail to penetrate the skin of the enemy and inject the neurovirus, making the opponent's pain unbearable, even to the point of paralysis.
Bullet ants are born with a love of challenges, and not just bully the weak, even animals hundreds of times larger than themselves will fight hard, which completely violates the rules of the biological chain, but because of their small size, so when encountering large creatures, their attacks will not produce fatal danger, but only produce pain like bullets, on the contrary, if some smaller animals, bullet ants' toxins can make them in danger of dying.
From the perspective of the biological chain, the bullet ant is a small animal, the natural enemy should be a huge creature, such as an anteater and the like, but it is not, but it is humpback, the figure is much smaller than the bullet ant, the perennial hermitage on the bee, the adult hunchback peak is only about 3 mm, do not look at it small, as long as the humpback appears on the bullet ant, it will cause a threat to life.
It's not that the bullet ant's big tongs can't hit Humpback, but because the Humpback Peak is really too small, the bullet ant's big tongs can't catch it at all, and Humpback has a poison that specializes in dealing with bullet ants, a little bit, you can make bullet ants kill on the spot, the biological world is really too interesting, one thing drops one thing!
Although there is no danger to life after being bitten by bullet ants, but the pain caused by it is very bearable, once a famous Entomologist in the United States in order to experience the harm caused by insects, specially found more than a hundred kinds of insect bites, including bullet ants, and among so many insects, it is the bullet ants that bring the strongest sense of pain.
To use this entomologist's feeling is that like a rusty nail stuck to the heel, and then walking barefoot on the burning charcoal, the pain is a burst, and this pain will not weaken in a short period of time, but will last for about 24 hours, this pain is not a part of the bite, if it is bitten on the back of the hand, then the shoulder will also bring this pain, and even this arm can not move for several hours, it can be seen that the damage caused by bullet ants is not insignificant.
But bullet ants also rely on this weapon to survive in the cruel rainforest, they are naturally belligerent, they will also take insects several times larger than themselves as prey, use the toxins on the large pincers as weapons to attack the prey, small can paralyze each other, heavy can directly hunt it, for this reason, some large animals are far away from them.
Although the bullet ant has a terrible attack power, but the indigenous people living in the Amazon have to go through its baptism in their lives, long ago, the indigenous people in the rainforest were chased by outsiders, the entire family suffered strong damage, but the few remaining tribesmen in order to hope to be able to reproduce, in the process of escape, a man accidentally fell into the nest of the bullet ant, in order not to be discovered by the enemy, the man endured the damage of the bullet ant, in the pain compared with the enemy holding a shotgun outside, the man had to hold back, Even though it was already crawling with bullet ants, it did not make a single sound, and it was precisely this that the man was lucky to survive and avoid the enemies outside.
Therefore, when the man formed the clan, in order to thank the bullet ants for their help, he created a unique coming-of-age ceremony in his tribe, as long as the boy was an adult, he had to put his hands into the gloves filled with bullet ants, let the bullet ants bite, not to stretch out for 10 minutes, once it was extended, it had to reach in again, until the regulations were completed, which meant that the boy became a real man.
The process is quite difficult, because the bullet ant feels supplied by a foreign enemy at this time, so it will spare no effort to bite, but fortunately, throughout the ceremony, there will be tribesmen dancing around him to distract him.
But the pain caused by bullet ants is not only within these 10 minutes, the terrible thing is that it brings "sequelae", bullet ants toxins will quickly penetrate into human muscle tissue through the blood, so these indigenous people experience this coming-of-age ceremony, most of the people's bodies will have a state of trembling, some even difficult to control the outflow of saliva, consciousness becomes blurred, until 24 hours later will slowly return to normal, the locals also jokingly call bullet ants "24-hour ants"!
Such a ritual may seem cruel, but it is actually a test for a man by the tribe, because in the future, men need to defend the safety of the tribe, and they will face various difficulties, and only men who have experienced hardships can become qualified defenders.
Such a custom deserves our respect, but ordinary people are unbearable, and I hope that everyone will not have this encounter!
Bullet ants with such a powerful power are not everywhere, most of them will live on the "Great Rift Five Mountains Willow Tree" in the Amazon forest, for bullet ants, the extra-flower nectar glands flowing from this plant have a unique taste, they like it very much, and it will also feed on it, even the water droplets on the trees can be used as food, so they have a natural love for such trees.
So they gather under such trees to build a nest, so that the honey and water droplets can be brought back to the nest faster for storage, or to feed the larvae.
Therefore, in this area, many animals will avoid this tree when they see it, and the Great Rift Five Mountains Willow Sumu has also obtained a protective umbrella, and it is less likely to be violated by outsiders, after all, the power of bullet ants cannot be underestimated.
It's like there's some kind of deal between them, both sides are mutually beneficial, and they don't infringe on each other, you nourish me, I'm here to protect you!
And the bullet ant, as an outlier in the ant family, has a huge size, a strong attack power, and is rampant in the entire Amazon rainforest, and I hope that after you understand it, you can also respect it!