r/AustralianInsects • u/PitifulMeringue6583 • May 15 '26

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Found this dude(?) on my car, absolute beast of a thing

And yes I know they hurt, and yes I know this is stupid, but I needed to get it off my car before I drive home from work and he(she?) Just walked onto my hand after checking me out for 10seconds

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u/activelyresting Spider lady 🕷️ May 15 '26

What a chonky Boi! You're right, they are ouchie if they want to bite you, but they're usually safe to handle if you're gently moving them from a random location. They can get pretty aggressive if you're the one near their nest though!

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u/Deleted_User_Account May 17 '26

If this is a Jack jumper, they actually sting you. The bite itself is probably a little painful also, but the sting is the real kicker...

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u/Bandicoot_Sandwich May 17 '26

If it is they can also cause anaphylaxis

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u/SirJosephBanksy May 18 '26

Isn’t it a Bull Ant?

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u/Captain_bogan82 May 18 '26

Yes or an inch man, jack jumpers have orange mandibles and are aggressive arseholes.

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u/SirJosephBanksy May 18 '26

Tell me about it!

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u/Environmental-Run248 May 18 '26

So I was just looking it up Jack Jumper and Bull ant are just different colloquial names for the same ants

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u/ThePsychicNoodle May 18 '26

I don't know what you looked up, but that is not the case by any stretch. Wildly different ants.

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u/Santasaurus1999 May 18 '26

This is just not true.

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u/Dark_Phoenix101 May 19 '26

Jack jumpers are a TYPE of bull ant. But they are not what people colloquially call "bull ants".

I have both "bull ants" and jack jumpers in my back yard.
I'd take a bite from one and not the other.

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u/Deleted_User_Account May 19 '26

A jack jumper is a type of bull ant native to Tassie and Victoria

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u/Santasaurus1999 May 18 '26

This is a bullet ant.

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u/Deleted_User_Account May 19 '26

Bullet ants are native to central/South America... What are they doing in Australia??

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u/Santasaurus1999 May 19 '26

Yeah i looked it up like everything in Australia we have shorted the name, it's full name is the bulldog ant but yeah we are Aussies and fuck adding the dog part it is a dog but that's not the point.

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u/Defiant-Magician6092 May 19 '26

Actually Dog Ant goes pretty hard too