| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93665] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 14:19  |
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I'm so glad these damn things are not in Arizona.
"Fire ants are so named because their venom induces a painful, fiery sensation. When disturbed, fire ants are very aggressive. The ant grips the skin with its mandibles or jaws and stings its victim several times in a circular pattern around the point of mandible attachment. Because of the ant's aggressive nature and capacity for multiple stings, an attack usually results in several stings."
If you live in the sourthern states, especially Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, you WILL get stung by fireants every summer (or even winter too), without fail. Just saying they are "very aggressive" does not come close to describing these damn things. Basically, if they can touch you, they WILL sting you, each one many times, until you brush them off or squish them. If you layed down on a fire ant mound, they would most certainly sting you to death and then eat you too. Having lived in Mississippi for quite a few years, fireants are probably #1 on my most hated insects list, just under mosquitoes.
Just imagine living there, and knowing that this week, next week, or the week after that you were definitely going to have something like this:
I know what you're thinking..."just don't bother them". Its not that simple...the damn things make mounds all over your yard, so when you cut the grass you disturb a nest and thats your ass...you can't go within a dozen feet of it for days. Not only that if it rains, they invade your house, and if you so much as blow air on them, they scramble about looking for something to attack.
Lets not forget the other fun part...walking under pine trees. You see the ants like pine sap, because its sweet, so the fire ants climb all over pine trees...usually if you see someone lean against one, and before yuo can warn them they are doing the wild dance that only fireant stings can cause. Once I simply walked under a pine tree, and ONE ant fell out of the tree into my hair...the little bastard stung my scalp a dozen times before I could kill it, pretty much by just slamming my hand down all over my head like some crazed monkey.
EDIT: I forgot to mention the wonderful "surprise!" that fireants give you. You see unlike other ants that BITE you, fireants have a STINGER, like a bee. But to sting you first they have to bite you and holdon...so you get about a .3 second jab of what you would think is pain (the bite), before they sting you (which hurts like hell). If you don't immediately (within a second, squish the ant or brush it off, it keeps stinging. So you get *surprise!* (bite) *sting*-*sting*-*sting*-*sting*....and brushing them off isn't always easy as like I said they bite down and holdon. Also worth mentioning is that while fireants can float in water, they cannot swim, so they get in your pool, ponds, etc...then when you go for a swim, they latch on and you guessed it...start stinging. I hate the fuckers.
Fire ants are evil...they need to die...all of them.
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93666] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 14:25  |
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Oh, I hate these little fuckers. Some moron in the cubicle next to mine brought in an "ant colony" filled with fire ants. The idiot made a small crack in the glass and a ton escaped. About two days later I feel a sharp pain in my ankle and three of the little pricks stung me. Made my ankle swell up huge.
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93669] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 14:32 |
icedog90
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Fireants are pricky mother fuckers. As far as I remember, I think I was horribly attacked by them when I was about 4 years old (When I used to live in California). Good thing we don't get them up here in Washinton state.
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93671] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 14:34 |
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Blazer
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Yep...I've never seen anything so aggressive as those things. Like a spider will walk all over you and not even bite you, you can catch a bee in your hand and it usually won't sting you unless you squish it. Any fireant WILL sting you until you kill it if it simply touches you for ANY reason, even if they are just wandering around and come across your foot like what happened to you. Any other damn insect tries to avoid stuff, but these damn things just go where they please, and anything that moves they sting it.
Hydra...no thats not my arm in that picture, but various parts of my body have looked like that EVERY summer that I lived in Mississippi. In fact I would venture to say that anyone who ventures outside in MS or states around it, gets stung by fireants EVERY summer without fail. And the stings always look like that, or worse. The pain only lasts a minute, and then they itch like hell for about a week.
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93676] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 14:40 |
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Although I haven't had any encounters with fire ants, I do however have another ant that pisses me off.
Flying carpenter ants. I live in a 30+ year-old house, it's foundations made of wood and most of the ceiling as well. A couple of months ago we spotted and about half an inch long crawling out of a crack. We thought spray would kill them, didn't work. We tried plugging the hole, they just made a new one. It seems the only thing we can do is put up a bug zapper, INSIDE OUR OWN HOME, just to make sure they don't spread into the rooms and kitchen.
On a plus side, I get great satisfaction from seeing the fuckers roast and watching the electricity evaporate all their body fluids causing them to pop. :twisted:
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93705] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 15:42 |
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Forget fire ants. Daddy long legs are much worse. How would you like 8 long legs on wings, random movements.. the kind of beast you find flying around walls when all the windows are shut, and you wonder how the hell it got in.
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93736] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 18:37 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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. Its not that simple...the damn things make mounds all over your yard, so when you cut the grass you disturb a nest and thats your ass...
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Who the hell needs a lawn?
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"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93763] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 20:03 |
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. Its not that simple...the damn things make mounds all over your yard, so when you cut the grass you disturb a nest and thats your ass...
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Who the hell needs a lawn?
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Sure as hell not white trash Engi! 
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| Why Fire Ants Suck [message #93774] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 20:29 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Yeah, they are really poisonous, but their fangs are miniscule and they can't bite you at all. There is no reason to fear daddy long legs.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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