Golden-tailed bull ant
Myrmecia piliventris
The golden-tailed bull ant is a big Australian ant. It is mostly black, but its back end is golden yellow, as if it had dipped its tail in honey. It lives in many parts of Australia.
Lives in
Australia, but not common in the west
Length
1 to 1.6 cm (0.39 to 0.61 in)
What does it eat?
Like other bull ants, the grown-ups drink sweet plant juices, and they catch insects to feed their babies.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 6.8 seconds
How big is Golden-tailed 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)
Golden-tailed bull ant about 0.53 km/h (0.33 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its jaws, feelers and legs are dark brown, and its feet have a reddish tone.
2
Most of its cousins have teeth on their jaws, but this ant has none.
3
Inside its cells it has very few chromosomes, the little packages of building instructions, fewer than most of its relatives.
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Most asked questions about Golden-tailed bull ant
?How big is the golden-tailed bull ant?
A worker is about 10 to 15 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecia piliventris
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Golden tail bull ant
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecia piliventris (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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