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@blazeys-planet submitted: Hiya! i found this weird little guy outside this evening and am utterly lost on what on earth it could be, any ideas? please remove once posted but its in [removed]!
Oooooh cool find! This is a male driver ant in the genus Dorylus and I love him. Great news! Sometimes they are referred to as sausage flies due to their long silly abdomen. Incredible.
MANDIBLE (War of the eyeless)
The Termite sentinels chant their death rattle, every one of them will be torn limb from limb by the barbarian hordes but their sacrifice will buy time for the architects to seal the gates and keep the colony safe.
FEED US / Blue Avian
hello everybody I just learned a cool new ant fact :)
“Such is the strength of the ant's jaws that, in East Africa, they are used as natural, emergency sutures. Various East African indigenous tribal peoples (e.g. Maasai moran), when suffering from a gash in the bush, will use the soldiers to stitch the wound by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the gash, then breaking off the body. This use of ants as makeshift surgical staples creates a seal that can hold for days at a time, and the procedure can be repeated, if necessary, allowing natural healing to commence.“
(stolen from Wikipedia)
Driver Ants (Dorylus), Kibale Forest, Uganda
The driver Ants, Dorylus (1793)
Phylum : Arthropoda Class : Insecta Order : Hymenoptera Family : Formicidae Subfamily : Ecitoninae Genus : Dorylus Species : about 58 species
Least concern
2,5 cm long (size)
Africa (map)
The driver ant genus Dorylus, also known as safari ants, or siafu, is found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to tropical Asia. The term siafu is a loanword from Swahili, and is one of numerous similar words from regional Bantu languages used by indigenous peoples to describe various species of these ants. Unlike the New World members of the subfamily Ecitoninae, members of this genus do form temporary anthills lasting from a few days up to three months. Each colony can contain over 20 million individuals. As with their New World counterparts, there is a soldier class among the workers, which is larger, with a very large head and pincer-like mandibles. They are capable of stinging, but very rarely do so, relying instead on their powerful shearing jaws.
