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	The Natural History of Bullet Ants
		Ant fecal droplets on viewing glass are wiped clean with damp paper towels or, in less accessible areas, safely scraped away using a straight-edged razor blade mounted on the end of a stick.
		Weber, N.A. (1937): The sting of an ant.
		Weber, N.A. (1939): The sting of the ant, Paraponera clavata.
	www.sasionline.org /antsfiles/pages/bullet/bulletbio.html (0 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Killer ants (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bullet ants (Paraponera clavata) Paraponera F. Smith, 1858 is a genus of ponerine ants (in)famous for its sole species, the so-called bullet ant,, named on account of its most powerful and potent sting, the sensation of which has often been likened with that of being shot with a bullet by those who...
		Bullet ants, and their close relatives of the genus Dinoponera are New World ponerines.
		Honeypot ants (genus Myrmecocystus) Honeypot ants are ants which are gorged with food by workers, to the point that their abdomens swell enormously.
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	Protein Spotlight Issue 14: Princess Bala's sting
		One of the first descriptions ever of a bullet ant’s sting on a human, was made in the 1920s by the Belgian natural historian Joseph Charles Bequaert (1886-1982).
		For those who have not been shot but rather stung by a wasp, the pain caused by the sting of a bullet ant is 30 times worse The ants do this by way of a retractable syringe-like lance on their abdominal tip from which they inject a potent nerve toxin into prey or enemies.
		Bullet ant stings have been used for centuries to treat rheumatism and similar afflictions besides being administered during tribal manhood rituals.
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	Ants, Size, and Solar Energy: summary of an article in PNAS 2005 by Mike Kaspari
		An ant colony is made of up of ten to a few million individuals; ants are one of the most important and conspicuous land animals.
		The mass of an ant colony thus is the sum of the weights of all the individuals in that colony.
		Ants, like many wasps, bees, termites and aphids, are eusocial, meaning that a queen lays the eggs and her offspring raise them to adulthood, where they too join the workforce.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /K/Michael.E.Kaspari-1/Antsize.htm (1597 words)

	Ant: pictures, information, classification and more
		Like social insects in general, ants may be termed industrious, although colony activity varies from a high degree of intensity at certain times of the day (usually early morning and late afternoon, or early evening in nocturnal ants) to lethargy at other times (usually through midday or in the early hours before dawn).
		Ants such as aphid-tending species are frequent pests around lawns and gardens; however, the great benefit of these and other ants in aerating and mixing the soil also must be considered.
		Bulldog ants are in the genus Myrmecia, and the bullet ant is Paraponera clavata.
	www.everythingabout.net /articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/ant/more_ant.shtml (1311 words)

	God of Insects - Museum: Paraponera clavata
		Regionally the ant is known by many other names, all alluding to the exquisite pain that the insect causes (said by some to be the worst pain caused by an insect sting).
		Bullet ants are not aggressive except when defending themselves or their colony.
		Bullet ant workers are solitary hunters, returning to the nest with captured insects.
	godofinsects.com /museum/display.php?sid=1401 (271 words)

	Diversity of Ant Mandibles
		Ants use their mandibles for a diverse array of activities, and are thus constrained by the need to have mandibles which can fulfill a number of functions.
		Some ants, however, can indeed inflict a painful bite on humans; among these are the African driver ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, which in great numbers are capable of killing large mammals solely through the action of their mandibles (Hölldobler and Wilson, 1990).
		While many modern ants have basically this same mandibular morphology (although usually with additional teeth), a more typical groundplan is for the mandible to have an elongated masticatory margin and a prominent basal angle, giving the mandible a distinctive triangular shape.
	tolweb.org /onlinecontributors/app?service=external/ViewTreehouse&sp=l2482 (1363 words)

	The Quest for Bullet Ants
		But ants were everywhere we looked since they dominate rainforests and perform vital natural roles as predators, soil builders and plant pruners.
		They are relatively primitive ants because the queen is only slightly larger than her workers, thus little-specialized for egg laying, while mature colony populations are small and rarely contain more than a few thousand individuals.
		Bullet ants rear their brood in underground nests and climb trees to forage high in the energy-rich forest canopy.
	www.sasionline.org /antsfiles/pages/bullet/quest.html (0 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Ant, cpptasks, & Multiplatform C/C++ Projects \| July 29, 2003
		Ant is a platform-independent build utility that uses XML as its script language.
		In Ant, the name of the target is not identical to the name of the produced file, which is an advantage in this case, since the output file name might differ between platforms.
		The standard Ant tasks provide a platform-independent replacement for shell commands or built-in command interpreter commands, which have caused trouble in the past even if the same variation of Make was used on all platforms.
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	Ant in Anger
		Ant is also a great adjunct to an IDE; a way of doing all the housekeeping of deployment and for clean, automated builds.
		Ant lets you declare what you want done, with a bit of testing of the platform and class libraries first to enable some platform specific builds to take place.
		Ant may simplify the build and test process, and can eliminate the full time "makefile engineer" role, but that doesn't mean that someone can stop "owning the build".
	ant.apache.org /ant_in_anger.html (6597 words)

	Mario Gully (Ant) Interview
		MARIO: The “one-liner pitch” is: ANT is a story about a child who wants to be a hero when she grows up and writes about her fantastic tales in her journal.
		ANT is a combination of all the things that I like to draw: kids, bugs, dirty alleyways, full-figured women and a combination of my life experiences thus far on this planet.
		MARIO: Well since ANT is already a big chunk of who I am and what I’m about, it’s hard to say how or what I will do to incorporate a particular instance or one of those memories that I have that basically says “this happened to me”.
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	Earthwatch 1998: Costa Rican Caterpillars
		I originally thought the name "bullet" referred to the fact that the ants are about the size of a rifle bullet, but in fact it refers to the fact that if you're stung, it feels like a bullet going in.
		Generally, when you'd get to the tree with the nest, there might be one or two ants visible on the bark and it was no problem putting the nectaries on their little hangers made of bent paper clips, but when you came to collect the nectaries after an hour, they'd usually be swarming with ants.
		Unfortunately, she set it next to the ant tree, and although she got perfect marks for her Zen performance at the tree, putting on a rucksack with ants crawling on it wasn't such a great idea, and one of them stung her four or five times on her leg.
	www.geometer.org /earthwatch98 (13405 words)

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		They are among the more primitive of the ant species: their social organization is envied by no other ant hill and their queen is barely larger than her subjects.
		A bullet ant's sting is extremely painful and often compared with the pain caused by a bullet shot—hence the name bullet ant.
		Bullet ant stings were used to treat rheumatism and similar afflictions and administered during tribal manhood rituals.
	www.bio.com /realm/features.jhtml?realmId=6&cid=ci398220 (693 words)

	Global warming could trigger ant invasions - life - 21 March 2005 - New Scientist
		The study of 665 ant colonies in environments ranging from tropical rainforests to frozen tundra suggests that in warmer environments the ants' body size shrinks, on average, while the number of individuals in the colony booms.
		Kaspari found that worker ant and colony size varied almost 100-fold in his survey of ant colonies in 49 ecosystems in the Americas.
		Worker ant size varied from the largest - the bala or bullet ant (see photo) which is about the size of the end segment of an adult human's thumb - to ants so small they can only be seen with a microscope.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7170 (492 words)

	News Release 9/2006: Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas
		In their native Argentina, where Gilbert and his collaborators study the ants and flies, fire ants are assaulted by as many as 12 different kinds of phorid fly in an area smaller than a football field.
		Fire ants are not typically pests or even common in South America in large part because of harassment by the phorid flies.
		In the presence of these flies, ants have difficulty retrieving food, having mating flights or rescuing their larvae after mounds become disturbed by animals such as armadillos during the day.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/news/2006/09/biology27.html (855 words)

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	Digg - Steve-O and Chris Pontius try the bullet ant ritual
		They shouldn't have reacted so quickly anyways, the pain is suppose to come after 10 seconds or something, but they were screaming as soon as their fingertips touched the glove...
		Bullet ants are one of the most dangerous insects in the world.
		The USA Interior Dept. will not even let bullet ants in the country unless there's tons of containment efforts to prevent their escape into the wild.
	digg.com /videos/comedy/Steve_O_and_Chris_Pontius_try_the_bullet_ant_ritual (814 words)

	Tropical Rain Forest
		Reportedly, these ants' stings are much like getting shot with a bullet, which begs the question of how many people have experienced both to make the comparison.
		The ants move the fungus to new nests, remove competing fungi, and even use a bacterium to produce antibiotics to eliminate any fungal competitors that do get into the fungus farm.
		Above, the trail of ants itself; to the right of the image a number of ants have linked their bodies to form a living "bridge".
	www.marietta.edu /~biol/biomes/troprain.htm (6296 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ant Colony Optimization: Books: Marco Dorigo,Thomas Stutzle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The complex social behaviours of ants have been much studied by science, and computer scientists are now finding that these behaviour patterns can provide models for solving difficult combinatorial optimisation problems.
		The ant colony metaheuristic is then introduced and viewed in the general context of combinatorial optimisation.
		Ant Colony Optimization will be of interest to academic and industry researchers, graduate students and practitioners who wish to learn how to implement ACO algorithms.
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	Ask Jim
		One of the insects he has studied the most are the leaf-cutting ants of the tropics.
		I am interested in ants, because they have powerful jaws, because if they were as big as a person they would rule the world.
		There is one ant called the bullet ant whose sting feels like being shot by a bullet.
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		This ant is the largest ant in the world and has the most irritating sting.
		The locals call it the "bullet ant", or the "24 hour ant." The sting is said to feel like a bullet, and last for about 24 hours.
		As the ant was peacefully taking a slow walk on a branch, about waist high, I put the end of my stick directly in front of her so she could climb aboard and I could just flick her into the web.
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	Halfbakery: Ant Gladiators
		Ant breeders would keep, breed, and grow ant hills in half circle containers with 5' radii.
		Woodlice, earwigs, spiders and ants were the generic catch.
		Ants ALWAYS survived the longest (sometimes for days on end).
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Ant_20Gladiators (380 words)

	Research and Discovery \| The Forman School
		Bullet ants, which have the most painful sting of any ant, are about an inch long and are a highly feared insect.
		Bullet ants, which have the most painful sting of any ant, were very carefully collected by the team.
		About thirty ants were collected every evening and, after being milked for venom, returned to their habitat.
	www.formanschool.org /rain_research (863 words)

	Re: Predacious Ant? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These large (1"+) fl ants are solitary hunters that have quite a powerful sting.
		In fact, it is said to be the most painful of any ant, wasp or bee species.
		I am not certain as to whether the ant belongs to any wasp genus, but I do reasonabley doubt it since it has never been referred to as such, but I can always be mistaken.
	www.petbugs.com /forums/discuss.cgi?read=1094 (163 words)

	JS Online: Museum will be crawling with insect activity
		The queen bullet ant is almost always the center of attention for worker ants.
		To be stung by a bullet ant has been likened to being hit by a.
		Any dangerous species will be kept safely in display cases with special security devices; the aquarium the bullet ants now live in bears the sign: "Hot and Venomous." And a "bug patrol" made up of volunteers will be on hand to make sure all human/insect encounters remain pleasant and within the exhibit confines.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=111374 (930 words)

	bullet pictures and videos on Webshots
		bullet ant -- get bit by one of these and it feels like...
		Bullet hole from bullet that struck Hyrum Smith
		Bullet ant, thing was big and scary, got its name cause...
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	Costa Rican insects
		If you're lucky then you won't come in contact with the bullet ant, which gets to a length of about two centimeters and has a bite which can cause severe sickness for a couple of days.
		It's far more likely that you'll see leafcutter ants, which are amongst the most amazing members of this diverse family, with a very complex society.
		Their trails and prominent nests are very common, and if you stop and look you'll almost certainly see them walking up and down tree trunks, dwarfed by the pieces of leaves they're carrying down to the nest.
	www.richard-seaman.com /Insects/CostaRica/index.html (331 words)

	Ant #2 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		Ant is the story of Hanna Washington, a little girl trying to escape the realities of a bad life.
		And in order to escape this dismal right now, Hanna writes and fantasizes about growing up to be a misunderstood superhero who does not have to put up with anyone’s shit.
		And the character Ant signifies this physical comic book, publishing this comic represents Mario’s escape from his wayward ways to something better.
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	Writing • Bala bites of passage
		The ants were so big (or so smart) that they could brace themselves against the edges of the collection tube by stretching out their appendages.
		Then some ants darted out a back exit at my feet, and soon a moving blanket of fl was crawling up my socks.
		Although I eventually knocked the ant off, my leg swelled horrendously, and I realized I might just as well have let the ant have its way with me. Still, in my misery, I was consoled: This was my initiation; I had joined the scientific tribe.
	www.nathanwelton.com /stories/whimsy/balas.html (631 words)

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