Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Cape Harvester Ant being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Messor striatifrons
- Messor hispanicus
- Messor marocanus
- Messor bouvieri
- Messor arenarius
- Veromessor pergandei
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Messor
- Species
- Messor capensis
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