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Asian jumping ant

Harpegnathos venator

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Photograph: Jonghyun Park · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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Drag the sun. Asian jumping ant is diurnal, so what it is doing changes with the light.

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Temperature22–26 °C
Humidity70–80 %
Diet2–4 days

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
22–26°Ambient

One ambient band, 22–26°C. This sheet states no warm side, no cool side and no night figure, so none are shown. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet states22-26C

Humidity

70–80%Target RH

The sheet states70-80%

Enclosure
Test-tube/small founding; bioactive soil-clay nest + outworld

Identity

Adult size

1.75 m1.4–1.6 cm
1520100400 cm
1.4–1.6 cmNose to tail, adult

The size the sheet states for a grown animal.

Why

Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.

Order / Family
Hymenoptera
IUCN / CITES
Not evaluated; CITES not yet in our data
Difficulty
Advanced (experts only)
Commonality
Specialist keepers; occasional in trade
Adult size
Worker 14-16mm; queen similar; big eyes
Lifespan
Queen several yrs; small colonies (tens-hundreds)
Growth rate
Slow
Activity & niche
Ground predator, visual hunter, semi-diurnal; jumps
Temperament
Alert, defensive; will sting
Venom / defense
Functional STING (hornet-like, lingers hours) + strong mandibles - handle with care

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
22-26C
Humidity
70-80%
Min. enclosure
Test-tube/small founding; bioactive soil-clay nest + outworld
Substrate
Cocopeat/clay bioactive nest; leaf litter
Hides / decor / water
High humidity, leaf litter, hides; live-prey hunting space

What your climate adds

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Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 2.3–3.5 dAs the sheet states
12Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet statesLive insects (crickets, small roaches); little sugar · Protein 2-3x/week (obligate predator)

Staple food
Live insects (crickets, small roaches); little sugar
Feeding frequency
Protein 2-3x/week (obligate predator)

Behaviour and handling

HandlingDo not handle - painful sting
CommunalSingle colony; workers can become gamergates
Defense / stress signsJumping, sting posture, big-eyed tracking

Reproduction

Reproduction
Semi-claustral; mated workers (gamergates) can reproduce if queen lost - colonies can persist queenless

Common health problems

Common health issues
SignsSlow growth, feeding refusal, dehydration
Red flags / quarantine
SignsSTING risk; secure lid; never release; keep away from children

Good to know

  • Has excellent vision and leaps onto prey; workers can turn into egg-laying 'gamergates'

What it needs

A thermometerbecause temp22-26C
A hygrometerbecause humidity70-80%
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « Test-tube/small founding; bioactive soil-clay nest + outworld »

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

Others in this group

What this sheet states

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TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

Every field this product runs on is stated here. That is not a claim that the values are right: it says what the sheet states, not whether it is true. Whether a human has read it is the badge at the top of this page.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.