{"id":788,"date":"2018-08-31T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:43:38","slug":"ouch-what-stung-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Ouch. What stung me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fire Ants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fire Ants can sting several times<\/li>\n<li>Male fire ants die soon after mating<\/li>\n<li>A fire ant queens\u2019 lifespan is 7 years or more<\/li>\n<li>Fire ants are extremely aggressive, especially if their nest is disturbed<\/li>\n<li>The fire ant uses it\u2019s antennae to hear, smell, find and taste food<\/li>\n<li>Fire Ants are reddish brown to black in color and are about a quarter inch long<\/li>\n<li>Fire ants were accidentally imported to the U.S. in the 1930\u2019s via South America ships<\/li>\n<li>The ants themselves are reddish brown in color and roughly 1\/8 to 1\/4 inch in length<\/li>\n<li>One fire ant colony may have numerous queens, each with the fertility to lay up to 1,500 eggs per day<\/li>\n<li>Fire ant mounds may reach two feet in height and have been found to extend twenty feet into the ground<\/li>\n<li>Fire ants mate when the temperature is between 70 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit, with peak times during the spring and fall months<\/li>\n<li>Once the queen has established a group of new workers, she continues to lay 100,000 to 300,000 eggs per year and can live for six or seven years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fire Ants Fire Ants can sting several times Male fire ants die soon after mating A fire ant queens\u2019 lifespan is 7 years or more Fire ants are extremely aggressive, especially if their nest is disturbed The fire ant uses it\u2019s antennae to hear, smell, find and taste food Fire Ants are reddish brown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pest-control","tag-fire-ants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12701,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/12701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}