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What type of insect is the "Saharan silver", the world's fastest of its kind?

Question #149776. Asked by psnz.
Last updated Sep 08 2023.
Originally posted Sep 08 2023 3:12 PM.

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Holy hot wheels Batman, it is a blistering fast ant! Stay calm Robin! A nice speed walking pace should out run it!
The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) is a species of insect that lives in the Sahara Desert. It is the fastest of the world’s 12,000 known ant species, clocking a velocity of 855 millimetres per second (over 1.9 miles per hour or 3.1 kilometres per hour). It can travel a length 108 times its own body length per second, a feat topped only by two other creatures, the Australian tiger beetle Cicindela eburneola and the California coastal mite Paratarsotomus macropalpis. This is nearly the walking pace of a human being, and compared to its body size would correspond to a speed of about 200 m/s (720 km/h) for a 180 cm (6 ft) tall human runner.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_silver_ant

Response last updated by BigTriviaDawg on Sep 08 2023.
Sep 08 2023, 3:14 PM
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