CanesBart
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- Feb 16, 2018
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Dang it, mayne! Get back from fishing at 6am, hit the bed, and wake up to stinging on my back and neck!
Mexican Crazy Ants went from an oak out front, over a cable wire, and into a gap in my window frame.
The WORST ants ever! Tiny, 1mm long, blonde ants who live in tree nests. New, invasive species, which thrives on wiping out our feared fire ant colonies. They SECRETE formic acid, so one on your skin leaves a line of red, burning rash like a Man-O-War tentacle sting. And their sting? Like the worst wasp!
Ive encountered them in Disc Golf (usually a sting ot two on the back of neck when in the Oaks) and an invasion during the flooding/ Hurricane last Fall.
But this? I was stung maybe 20 times, and where they crawled on me feels like a mild sunburn still.
Worst insect sting I've ever had, right up their with Saddleback caterpillers, and hurt worse than the Black Widow that bit me 4 times.
The only positive, they aren't in swarms of thousands+ like fire ants. Plus, being in oaks, you only encounter a few if you touch a branch. But still......
I wonder if anything will prey on them, being chock full of formic acid? Hopefully, our Anoles and Curly Tail lizards can eat them?
I'm half Mexican, and NEVER heard of or saw these ants anywhere in my Motherland, BTW.
Mexican Crazy Ants went from an oak out front, over a cable wire, and into a gap in my window frame.
The WORST ants ever! Tiny, 1mm long, blonde ants who live in tree nests. New, invasive species, which thrives on wiping out our feared fire ant colonies. They SECRETE formic acid, so one on your skin leaves a line of red, burning rash like a Man-O-War tentacle sting. And their sting? Like the worst wasp!
Ive encountered them in Disc Golf (usually a sting ot two on the back of neck when in the Oaks) and an invasion during the flooding/ Hurricane last Fall.
But this? I was stung maybe 20 times, and where they crawled on me feels like a mild sunburn still.
Worst insect sting I've ever had, right up their with Saddleback caterpillers, and hurt worse than the Black Widow that bit me 4 times.
The only positive, they aren't in swarms of thousands+ like fire ants. Plus, being in oaks, you only encounter a few if you touch a branch. But still......
I wonder if anything will prey on them, being chock full of formic acid? Hopefully, our Anoles and Curly Tail lizards can eat them?
I'm half Mexican, and NEVER heard of or saw these ants anywhere in my Motherland, BTW.