to whoever hates fire ants

[ElHombre]

anyone who has lived in texas has at least one story that goes, 'i once stepped into a fire ant mound...' and then proceeds to tell the tale of pain that followed.

so how about some revenge (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA071706.1B.zombieflies.157708f.html)?


If you're like most Texans and hate fire ants, you'll love phorid flies.

They dive-bomb fire ants in pursuit of a reproductive goal — to lay a single egg in an ant's thorax.

It utterly ruins the ant's day, because the egg hatches into a larva, which wriggles to the ant's head, where it eats the brain and the muscles that attach the head to the thorax.

The ant's head falls off and serves as a cocoon for the phorid fly pupa, which soon emerges as an adult ready to start the process again.

scientists are releasing groups of these little insects around new braunfels. FIRE ANT DECAPITATION! BWA-HA-HA-HAAA!!!

[askDNA]

One time I was at Lake Austin and I stepped in a fire ant mound and didn't notice for awhile. When I finally realized what I had done, I ran and jumped into the water and then all those little f*ckers were at the top of the water biting my face and upper body.

[Hellfish]

I hate fireants. Hate, hate, hate.

[Name Taken]

I have never encountered them, but armed with this knowledge they will rue the day they clash with me.

[Mountain Man]

I grew up with those damn things and despise them. When I moved to Oklahoma I was shocked that they weren't up here. That was 10 years ago so those suckers must be slow since they are not here yet. Those are the worst insect bites, especially since they seem to it in groups.

Not me
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9795/ippmifaarmstingsex0.jpg


I used to jab a sharp piece of rebar in the mound and pour in some gas and light that mound up. Seemed to work on all but the deepest mounds.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3395/fastfactspic1oo8.jpg

[GammaDriver]

Hate 'em

They're good at sneak attacks - you just don't know they're on ya until that moment where focus is lost on everything else.

I had one bite me while I was sleeping three nights ago. Somehow he snuck into my relatives' brand new house, found his way to the bedroom I was sleeping in, and bit me between the fingers at about 3 AM in the morning.

I was dead asleep, but slapped my one hand onto the other. Still sleeping, it registered that the pain was a heck of a lot like a fire ant bite, and that I better get up. Consciousness, and finding the perpetrator, came soon thereafter.

I was a little amazed that, in a dead sleep, and in just three years of living in the south, this little prick has become familiar enough to me to have me recognize the bite in my sleep. I've been bitten maybe five times, total.

This is bad.

Side-note: hey, anyone have a "The more you know" rainbow GIF, or remember a thread with the gif in it - I need to get a hold of one.

[Mountain Man]

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8213/untitledim9.png

Couldn't find a gif

[GammaDriver]

awesome - thought it was a gif.

Thanks!

[kaspur_eh]

i dont know if we have fire ants here, but we do have some wicked redish ones with a painful bite/sting

[Mountain Man]

If it burns and itches at the same time, later developing a little blister of yellow cr@p , its probably a fire ant.

[socom6]

Man I hate those damn insects! What I usually do though is once I locate their base, I boil a big pot of water to bubbling point and slowly pour it into the ant hill. The ant hill soaks up the boiling water easily and it doesent even spread to your feet. You can see the steam lifting up from the ant hill and you know those bastids are cooked lol.

[TuNeRsHaRk]

Fly 1: Roger that Eagle2 we have a lock on the target

Fly HQ: affirmitive Eagle1 take em' out

http://www.faculty.missouristate.edu/l/lloydmorrison/phorid%20attacking%20ant2.jpg

[Greek soldier]

Enemy killed!

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/18/t_t/fire.ants/ant.head.large.jpg

[Icarus1]

Back in basic training I laid into the woods for an observation point. The instructors walking around, looking if they saw our posts, we didn't move for a long time, and I realised to late that some of these damn red ants were crawling around my back and biting me, I took them off after the instructors were away and a few minutes afterwards we marched back home. There I looked at my back in the mirror. Looked like a dinosaurs back. I was glad it was gone (except for an itchy feeling) the next morning.

[dave81]

Wasn't that a Colbert Report joke? Now that you have the flies that kill the ants, you'll have an overinfestation of these wild flies. Next you'll need to breed birds to kill the flies, followed by snakes to kill the birds, wolves to kill the snakes, then bears to kill the wolves.

[deagle]

but to phorid flies do worse ? carry disease or anything ?

[Gauntlet]

Enemy killed!

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/18/t_t/fire.ants/ant.head.large.jpg

Phorid Wins!
Fatality!