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Paraponera clavata
The world’s largest ant with a stinging bite hence the name bullet ant.
.Unlike most ants it is solitary during the day, although it lives in a colony, in a nest usually at the base of a tree.
Spotted Tambopata National Reserve (Reserva Nacional Tambopata) a nature reserve in the Peruvian Amazon Basin south of the Madre de Dios River The origin of the name is uncertain. Perhaps being the size of a bullet is the reason, or because the pain of its sting is akin to a bullet. Another name is 24 hour ant, because of the time for the pain of the sting to wear off.
Spotted on Sep 26, 2012
Submitted on Sep 26, 2012
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