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Originally posted by mind
Never heard of fire ants - but with pictures like these - i'll be sure to avoid em - OMG!
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Wow, you've never heard of fire ants? They are all over the place in Florida and they are a real treat, let me tell you. Those "floating ant balls" are no joke, either. As a kid growing up in Florida, I encountered those things hundreds of times after big storms. They float right up against you and suddenly you're being bitten all over your legs. The person in that picture must have had some kind of allergic reaction, though, because I've been bitten probably a million times and never had anything like that happen to me.
True fire ant story: my father and his friend Joe were golfing and Joe didn't realize it but he was standing on a fire ant hill while lining up one of his shots (this happens all the time in Florida) and before he knew it, he was covered in fire ants and had to
[i]strip nakes[i] on the golf course and leap into a water hazard to get them off of his body.
SpaceAce