If you have ever been bitten by a fire ant, you know what it feels like. Have you ever heard the phrase "I've got ants in my pants"? Well, you will feel that when you walk over an ant hill. They will get in your pants and bite you, and it will feel like your skin is on fire. You will need to scratch your itch to make it stop. They bite you all over your legs, and you will have red bumps. These red bumps will grow white fluids, and they look very nasty. They can spread and damage cattle and humans. Fire ants are also black. They will damage your crops and be a threat to life and the life of our animals.



Fire ants are pests. They come from South America, and they were imported here in the 1930's. Sometimes if they bite you too much and you scratch it, you can make yourself bleed just to stop the burning. These fire ants are an enemy to us humans. They work really fast to protect their queen and there colony. If you run over their hill, they will attack you. They are very mean, and they don't play around with a thing like that. They are very aggressive and violent insects.

There are also other types of fire ants out there, such as the bullet fire ant which can cause you a great amount of suffering and pain to your body. This ant's bite will not kill you. There are two kinds of fire ants that will burn you. Red ants are extremely deadly, and they blow poisonous toxic at you. This is called the piperidine alkaloid, which is very bad to get on you. Then there is the Southern fire ant. When it bites you, it will give you blisters. It is so painful that you will not be able to stand it.

There is one other kind of fire ant, which is called the Jack Jumper. It can kill animals and humans with a bite. This ant is in Australia, so watch out for them if you ever visit that country. The fire ants that we have here can live in the wall and in rotting wood. You can see them climbing on these things all the time. In the hill there are the colonies that the queen lives in. She can go a good distance for the colony. So be very careful when you walk in your yard.