Answer by Matan Shelomi, entomology, on Quora:. How long would it take to die by being staked to an ant colony? It depends on the ant. Some, like the Maricopa harvester ant, will kill you fast by ...

Some ant species are aggressive and pose danger. Encounters are becoming common due to growing cities and shifting weather.

As an initiation ritual, tribe elders go out into the jungle and capture a whole colony of bullet ants. They are drugged and woven—stinger-up—into specially-made gloves, which are placed on ...

But bullet ants live in small colonies of 300 to 1000 workers, so they’re individually costly units. The major ability of ants is numbers. I would pick a fire ant colony, ...

The Amazon’s bullet ant may be tiny, but this little insect has the most painful sting in the world. At just 1.2 inches long, the bullet ant doesn’t look like that dangerous of an insect.

Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...