Toothless bull ant
Myrmecia mandibularis
The toothless bull ant is a big Australian ant with an orange back end. Its jaws are completely black. It is a cousin of the jumping jack jumper ant and looks a lot like it.
Lives in
Southern Australia, most often around Perth
Length
1.5 to 3 cm (0.59 to 1.2 in)
What does it eat?
Like other bull ants, it hunts insects to feed its babies and also likes sweet things.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.9 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)
Toothless bull ant about 0.73 km/h (0.45 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a big ant, about 15 to 30 millimetres long.
2
It is most often seen around the city of Perth in Western Australia.
3
It was first described in 1858.
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Most asked questions about Toothless bull ant
?How big is the toothless bull ant?
It is about 15 to 30 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecia mandibularis
- Named by
- Smith, 1858
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecia mandibularis (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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