Tawny-legged jack jumper ant
Myrmecia fulvipes
This big Australian ant is a kind of bull ant. Its body is black, its legs are orange and its back end shines gold. It can jump short distances, which is quite a trick for an ant.
Lives in
Eastern Australia, from Tasmania to Queensland
Length
0.9 to 1.3 cm (0.35 to 0.51 in)
What does it eat?
The grown-up ants drink sweet honey water. They catch insects to feed their babies.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 7.5 seconds
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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)
Tawny-legged jack jumper ant about 0.48 km/h (0.3 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It jumps short distances to run away from danger or to leap at its target.
2
It looks a lot like its famous cousin, the jack jumper ant.
3
Queens are bigger than the workers and can be 14 to 16 millimetres long.
4
It lives in Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
you asked
Most asked questions about Tawny-legged jack jumper ant
?Can this ant really jump?
Yes. It can jump short distances, to escape or to attack.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecia fulvipes
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecia fulvipes (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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