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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Asian Trap-jaw Ant

Odontomachus rixosus

About

A Southeast Asian trap-jaw ant found in forest leaf litter with distinctive elongated mandibles. It is a specialist predator that ambushes small soil arthropods.

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Did You Know?

Its mandible strike generates forces exceeding 300 times its own body weight in under a millisecond.