Breaking: FLOATING ANT BALLS INVADING FLORIDA!! - GoFuckYourself.com

DarkJedi · 09-05-2004, 03:50 AM

http://fireant.tamu.edu/materials/gr...oto/img41.html

"Red imported fire ant colony floating in flood water."

The RED CROSS is considering adding Ant Spray to a hurricane disaster kit.

More details to come.

Manowar · 09-05-2004, 04:52 AM

just in from fox news:

"al quaeda may have funded the terrorist ants"

mind · 09-05-2004, 05:14 AM

Never heard of fire ants - but with pictures like these - i'll be sure to avoid em - OMG!

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Secondary infection following fire ant sting on hand. Texas Department of Agriculture file photo.

BlueQuartz · 09-05-2004, 05:25 AM

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Originally posted by Manowar
just in from fox news:

"al quaeda may have funded the terrorist ants"

emmanuelle · 09-05-2004, 05:39 AM

Fire ants are NASTY.
Often bedridden seniors or invalids have been killed when fire ants attacked them in their beds.

SpaceAce · 09-05-2004, 06:24 AM

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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!

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

ezrydn · 09-05-2004, 07:30 AM

They're also a menace in Texas. I've only been bitten by one measley little fire ant but, the blister that raised from his nibble took months to heal.

They're almost as bad as the tree ants we had in Nam. In Nam, they would gather out on the end of a tree limb and hang down over a trail. You walk by and brush up against the limb and it was like water flowing onto you. An immediate covering. You just hoped there was a paddy or stream close by to jump into. Water was the only way to get them off of you.

09-05-2004, 03:50 AM	#1
DarkJedi No Refunds Issued. Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: GFY Posts: 28,300	Breaking: FLOATING ANT BALLS INVADING FLORIDA!! http://fireant.tamu.edu/materials/gr...oto/img41.html "Red imported fire ant colony floating in flood water." The RED CROSS is considering adding Ant Spray to a hurricane disaster kit. More details to come.

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Manowar jellyfish Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 71,528	just in from fox news: "al quaeda may have funded the terrorist ants"

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emmanuelle Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Oh Canada! Posts: 3,662	Fire ants are NASTY. Often bedridden seniors or invalids have been killed when fire ants attacked them in their beds.

09-05-2004, 07:30 AM	#7
ezrydn Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Guadalajara, MX Posts: 695	They're also a menace in Texas. I've only been bitten by one measley little fire ant but, the blister that raised from his nibble took months to heal. They're almost as bad as the tree ants we had in Nam. In Nam, they would gather out on the end of a tree limb and hang down over a trail. You walk by and brush up against the limb and it was like water flowing onto you. An immediate covering. You just hoped there was a paddy or stream close by to jump into. Water was the only way to get them off of you.