Bull ant
The bull ant is a giant Australian ant, about as long as the top part of your thumb. It is dark brown or black with big reddish jaws.
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Fun facts
It is called the inch ant because it can be about an inch long, which is 2.5 centimetres.
A nest can keep going without a queen, because the workers can lay eggs too. One queenless colony kept making new workers for three years.
It was first described in 1858 from ants collected near Melbourne.
Most asked questions about Bull ant
?How big is a bull ant?
About 14 to 26 millimetres long, one of the biggest ants in the world.
?Where do bull ants live?
In Australia, mostly in the eastern states, including in many big cities.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecia pyriformis
- Named by
- Smith, 1858
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Inch ant, Black bull-ant, Brown bulldog ant
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecia pyriformis (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 Narendra A, Reid SF, Raderschall CA (2013). CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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