Fun Fact Friday – Fire Ants
- Fire Ants can sting repeatedly.
- Fire Ants look very much like ordinary ants.
- Fire Ants are reddish brown to black in color.
- Fire Ants feed mostly on young plants and seeds.
- Fire Ants are well-known for their venomous sting.
- Fire Ants are social insects, live in colonies and build mounds of loose soil.
- A Fire Ant mound may contain up to 300,000 ants.
- Some Fire Ant colonies have only one queen, whereas others have many.
- Fire Ants do not hibernate and are renowned for their ability to survive extreme conditions.
- Fire Ants were accidentally brought to the United States on a cargo boat from South America.