Who got up this close to take the bull ant. Nasty bit of goods, they are.

Too much of a close up for me! Creepy!

EEEEWWWWWW!!! What is a bull ant? I agree with Anne - creepy!!!

woops. agree with mindy - creepy!

What an excellent picture!

awesome!

You don't see a picture like that very often, thank goodness!!!!!! Some one should step on it.

Are bull ants like fire ants? Nasty things. I didn't know what insanity felt like until I moved to Texas and stepped in a fire ant pile...

Great photo! Glad that's as close as I'll be getting to him!

It's not one of mine but I have been bitten by one - several times - and it's not a nice experience. We used to have two bull ant nests down the back of our garden and I was always very careful to leave them alone when I was cutting the grass. I believe that there are lot of ant bites (stings) More...

ooh, nasty looking fellow

Oh, Trish...aren't fire ants HORRIBLE.

Great photo. It might be an interesting 'hard'.

Glad he is on my computer screen and not in my yard.

Great photograph !

Really interesting change from the normal shots of animals we get - congrats to the photographer!

Ian, I have a bull ant nest in my garden but luckily, I haven't seen any just lately. When my oldest Grand daughter, Kirilee, was a baby and around here with her mum, there was one on her highchair while she was in it. I've never moved so quick in all my life. For some reason there was one in the house every day for about 5 days. Luckily they don't usually come indoors.

interesting. i don't think i've ever seen a thorax that looks like it's split in the middle. anne, i would have been screaming if that came into my home. i'd have whipped out my usual cure for ants, good old 409.

Not so nice a pet. Thete's an ant in Colombia about an inch long+ whose bite will give you grief for over a week.

type-o. Should be 'there's'

When I see pictures like this I'm glad that I live in the UK. I don't think I could cope with ants like this.

27th Feb'07

21st Mar'07

Really intriguing creature. Great photo!

11/21/07

Nasty, I just hate ants. Seems like they are everywhere. 01/14/08

We have fire ants aplenty, and their bites can be quite dangerous, especially to small animals and small children. They don't look anywhere near as menacing as this guy does, though. The local fire ants are much smaller and red, rather innocent looking critters until you step on their nest. Hats off to this photographer. It's a great shot!
4/12/08

The other problem with bull ants, is that like pit bulls, once they're attached they don't like to let go!