If you've ever been stung by a wasp or a bee, you know how much it hurts. Now imagine that pain elevated to the searing of a gunshot wound, and you get the bullet ant. The bullet ant -- Paraponera ...

Ants may be small, but some species pack a powerful punch with their venom. Among these, the South American bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) is famous for delivering one of the most excruciating stings ...

In the ponerine ant, P. clavata, allometric growth occurs for worker size and is correlated with task. The size distribution of workers is unimodal and skewed to the right. Guards and foragers were ...