Common name : Bullet ant
Scientific name : Paraponera clavata
Family : Formicidae
Native to : Nicaragua,
Honduras, Paraguay
Interesting fact : This ant is named such because of its extremely venomous and powerful sting, which causes severe pain the day after the sting.
Their height ranges from 18 to 30 mm. Reddish black in colour, they resemble wasps. They create colonies at the base of trees, with hundreds of worker ants in one colony. Their diet consists of nectar, and small arthropods which they look for on the forest floor.
