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The world's most painful ant sting targets nerves like scorpion venom
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Ants that inflict the world’s most painful stings do so by injecting venom that targets their victim’s nerve cells
Australian green-head ants (Rhytidoponera metallica) and bullet ants (Paraponera clavata), found in Central and South America, are not to be messed with. These insects’ stings unleash a flood of toxins that cause trembling and uncontrollable and long-lasting pain in humans and other mammals. In his 2016 book
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