lunes, 4 de mayo de 2015

Paraponera clavata

They are usually common ants. The workers are
 between 22 and 28 mm in length and queens are
 slightly larger. The colonies are composed of several
 hundred individuals and usually roam the tree trunks 
and dead vegetation in small groups.
The pain of his bite is 30 times that of a bee or wasp

and those who have suffered the sting ensure the analogy
  of it with the firing of a bullet.
This ant is used in a tribe in northern Brazil where there are children of 12 years, the tribe made a ritual to become men, they put in their tens of ants hands because it is said that if you endure the pain that this ant occurs, enemies will have some fear of the young as they are able to endure any pain.

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