Not to mention Hopper Ants / Jumping Jacks (Myrmecia pilosula) - ill-tempered little buggers Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Dec 2016, at 1:24 pm, Steven Hart <hartsentwine.australia@gmail.com> wrote: > > Haha I didn't mean to traumatise you guys ! I'm fascinated by them & have > seen red bull dog ants kill & tare apart full size grasshoppers in the bulb > garden. Pretty handy little fellas to say the least lol. > Here is a couple of photos. You don't ever want to be bitten if your > strolling through the rainforest. Ive copped a sting from both & the pain > is simply unfathomable !!!!! A girlfriends large bullmastiff size dog > wandered across a nest once & got a few stings on the tummy & it went into > chronic shock & shivered for over an hour in excruciating pain. All I could > do was plunge its tummy into a freezing creek & try to reduce the venom > movement to save its life. > > AUSTRALIAN RED BULL DOG ANT > https://bing.com/images/search/… > > AUSTRALIAN JUMPING ANT > http://oocities.org/brisbane_ants/images/… > > >> On 21 December 2016 at 21:49, Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com> wrote: >> >> I and my family are still shuddering at the concept of inch-long jumping >> ants with stingers. >> Jane >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > > > > -- > Steven : ) > Esk Queensland Australia > Summer Zone 5 Winter Zone 10 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/
