Black-scaped bull ant
Myrmecia nigriscapa
The black-scaped bull ant is a big Australian ant. Its head and the front part of its body are red, its legs are yellowish red, and its jaws are reddish yellow. Workers can be up to 25 millimetres long, which is huge for an ant.
Lives in
Australia, mostly along the southern coasts and some places inland
Length
1.7 to 2.5 cm (0.67 to 0.98 in)
What does it eat?
Like other bull ants, the workers 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 5.4 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)
Black-scaped bull ant about 0.67 km/h (0.42 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The queens are even bigger than the workers, 23 to 26 millimetres long.
2
The males are a bit smaller, usually 16 to 20 millimetres long.
3
It lives mostly along the southern coasts of Australia.
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Most asked questions about Black-scaped bull ant
?How big is the black-scaped bull ant?
Workers are 17 to 25 millimetres long, and queens up to 26 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecia nigriscapa
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecia nigriscapa (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 author. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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