What do bullet ants eat?

Bullet ants are large-sized ant species that are best known for severe sting. It is a predator ant species. The queen ant is nearly the size of worker ants. Bullet ants are some of the most painful of hymenopterans because their venom, unlike most other hymenopterans, is a neurotoxin. read more

Bullet ants, or Paraponera clavata, most commonly live off plant nectar. They have also been known to eat other insects and other types of plant exudates, including sap, rubber and resin. read more

The bullet ant Paraponera clavata has a boring diet: workers mostly collect sugar water from the rainforest canopy, supplemented with chunky prey items, like other ants and pieces of caterpillars. When they eat carbs, it’s in the form of a liquid which they gather in a droplet held by their mandibles. read more