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Fire Ants
Solenopsis invicta
35.1775, -80.8486
Field Notes
Description:
ANGRY FIRE ANTS! BEWARE!! Poke their volcano mounds and they swarm!! Some mounds were 3 feet with several gallons of soil mounded up meanwhile, below the surface their underground foraging tunnels can radiate out 100 feet in all directions; you cna see their eggs in the picture
Habitat:
clay soil urban schoolyard
Notes:
after several days of rain we found 100's of mound aroundour campus with millions of these ants; everyone was getting stung which produces pustules that are painful ant itch for days
Reference Links:
School of Ants
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PublishedApril 30, 2017
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