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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Sep 25, 2023

What sort of ant is this?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Sep 25, 2023

It's one of the so-called 'trap-jaw ants' in the genus Odontomachus - “Trap-jaw ants of this genus have the second-fastest moving predatory appendages within the animal kingdom”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odontomachus

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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Sep 25, 2023

Yikes, thank you. Excellent information as always.

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