Fire Ants!!!!
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- Jun 26
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Fire ant mounds can appear overnight, especially after rain or in warm weather.
A single mound is just the tip of the iceberg, with the real colony extending deep underground in a maze of tunnels and chambers.
Fire ants can literally float — during floods, they lock their bodies together to form a living raft that can drift for days until they reach dry ground.
Their mounds act like climate‑controlled apartments — warm, dry rooms above ground and cool, moist tunnels below.
Fire ants communicate with chemical “text messages” — pheromones that tell others where food is or when danger hits.
A single fire ant colony can pack over 200,000 ants — a whole underground city working nonstop.
