Top 10 Amazing and Unusual Ants

Top 10 Amazing and Unusual Ants

Ants are one of the smallest creatures on earth, but if you take a few moments to read up about them you might discover that they are also the most amazing. Here are ten of the most incredible ants you will ever see…

Top 10 Amazing and Unusual Ants

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Amazing Ants: Fire Ant

10 – Pogonomyrmex Barbatus

Let’s start with a rather nasty species. They are called Fire ants and each Each sting from a fire ant makes welts or pustules that can cause infections, allergic reactions thanks to is high concentration of toxins.

Amazing Ants: Giant Amazonian Ant

9 – Dinoponera

You don’t need me to tell you that this is the worlds biggest species of ant, you only have to look at the image to know that! But it is also one of the most passive species, and are often the victem of other species of ants and anything else that might eat them.

Amazing Ants: Blue Velvet Ant

8 – Mutillidae

The “Mutillidae” family of ants are most of the brightly coloured ones you will see in this list, but each of them have a much darker secret that you will come to learn a little later.

Amazing Ants: Fish-Hook Ant

7 – Polyrhachis Bihamata

I woud love to tell you that they use those back hooks to fish and that is how it got its name, but sadly I would be lying. In fact this extremely dangerous creature uses them to hook humans and other larger animals as they past and used the razor sharp fish hook like a claw to cut its pray open and eat them from the inside out! …gulp!

The Panda Ant

6 – Mutillidae

This cute looking panda coloured ant is anything but cute in reality. In fact, it has another family name as a Cow Killer, and yes, in swarms they do indeed kill cattle.

Amazing Ants: Honey Ant

5 – Myrmecocystus

Honey ants normally look orange thanks to the honey they store in their bodies. But Dr. Mohamed Babu from South India noticed their abdomens transparent and got an idea for a stunning set of photographs using different varieties of food coloring. The results are well worth seeing.

Amazing Ants: Safari Ant

4 – Dorylus

Some call it a driver ant or safari ant, but everyone who knows them calls them the world’s deadliest ant. They have been known to kill and strip a human bare in under 24 hrs, nothing by bones are left. What a pleasant fellow!

Amazing Ants: Red Velvet Ant

3 – Mutillidae

This ant is from the Mutillidae family of more than 3,000 species. But much like our next ant they are only ants by name and shape, in reality they are wingless waps much like our next one…

Amazing Ants: Thistledown Velvet Ant

2 – Dasymutilla Gloriosa

It might look cute, and have a rather soft name, but most farmers know this ant as “The Cow Killer.” It is found in the Mojave Desert, California and despite its look technically it is not an ant at all, but a wingless female wasp!

Amazing Ants: Turtle Ant

1 – Cephalotes Varians

This heavily armoured ant can use his odd shaped head to “parachute” by steering their fall if they drop off of the tree they’re on. But the flat head is also used to plug holes during an attack!

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