Australian jumper ant
Myrmecia tarsata
The Australian jumper ant is a big bull ant from south-eastern Australia. It is mostly black, with yellow jaws and reddish yellow legs. At over 2 centimetres long, it is a real giant among ants.
Lives in
South-eastern Australia, mainly New South Wales and around Canberra
Length
2.2 to 2.4 cm (0.87 to 0.94 in)
What does it eat?
Like other bull ants, the grown-ups drink sweet plant juices and catch insects to feed their larvae.
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 5.5 seconds
How big is Australian jumper 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)
Australian jumper ant about 0.66 km/h (0.41 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is 22 to 24 millimetres long, about as long as a paperclip.
2
In its nest, ordinary worker ants can lay eggs too, so the colony can carry on for a while without a queen.
3
The males are a little smaller than the workers.
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Most asked questions about Australian jumper ant
?How big is the Australian jumper ant?
About 22 to 24 millimetres long, which is huge for an ant.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecia tarsata
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecia tarsata (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 April Nobile. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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