Tawny-legged Jack Jumper Ant

Myrmecia fulvipes · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Formicidae

Can sting. Their sting is relatively mild.

Workers measure about 9-13 mm and queens 14-16 mm long. They have black jaws and body, orange legs, and a golden abdomen.

How to recognize it

Their jaws and most of the body are black, the legs are orange, and the abdomen is golden.

Workers are 9-13 mm long; queens are larger at 14-16 mm.

Their sting is relatively mild.

They feed larvae insects and collect honey-water as food.

Myrmecia fulvipes belongs to the bull-ant genus Myrmecia.

They look similar to the jack jumper ant.

Do they sting?

Yes, they can sting but the sting is relatively mild.

How big are they?

Workers are 9-13 mm long and queens are 14-16 mm long.

What do they eat?

They feed their larvae insects and collect honey-water.

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.