Australian red bull ant
Myrmecia simillima
The Australian red bull ant is a very big ant. A worker is about as long as your thumbnail is wide, or even longer. Its head and middle are brown, its back end is black, and its legs and jaws are reddish.
Lives in
South-eastern Australia, along the coast and inland in New South Wales and Victoria
Length
1.9 to 2.3 cm (0.75 to 0.91 in)
What does it eat?
Bull ants catch insects to feed their young and drink sweet plant juices themselves.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 4 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 5.6 seconds
How big is Australian red bull ant compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Australian red bull ant about 0.64 km/h (0.4 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
A worker ant is 19 to 23 millimetres long, which is huge for an ant.
2
The queen is even bigger, 22 to 24 millimetres long.
3
The tips of its legs and feelers are yellowish red.
4
It lives only in Australia.
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Most asked questions about Australian red bull ant
?How big is a bull ant?
A worker is about 19 to 23 millimetres long, and the queen is a little bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecia simillima
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecia simillima (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Zach Lieberman. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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