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October 13, 2005
When are fire ants most dangerous?
So I was over at PSOTD's site and the following picture caught my eye.
Combined with the headline I just had to read on. Evidently the folks down a LSU discovered that fire ants cling together during a flood to save themselves. In this stressed state they inject two or three times the venom when they bite someone. If you've never lived in the South with these monsters it's probably hard to imagine any creature so evil. Fire ants are everywhere and you learn to be VERY, VERY careful not to let them bite you. If they do get you the sting can last for hours. The notion of it being exponentially worse is hard to imagine! Scary, scary stuff! I'm going to stop talking about it because I'm starting to imagine them crawling on me. EVIL!!
Read more here.
Posted by ManDrake at October 13, 2005 8:02 PM
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