The fire ant dance

[KristyHall]

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I like that!

 

[KristyHall]

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ACK! I haven't tangled with those . maybe they haven't reached my area yet. they look nastier than fire ants though

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

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ACK! I haven't tangled with those . maybe they haven't reached my area yet. they look nastier than fire ants though

Pretty sure they are only in Australia! Where Everything bites or stings

 

[KristyHall]

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ACK! I haven't tangled with those . maybe they haven't reached my area yet. they look nastier than fire ants though

Pretty sure they are only in Australia! Where Everything bites or stings

oh for some reason I thought you were in florida

 

[KristyHall]

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ACK! I haven't tangled with those . maybe they haven't reached my area yet. they look nastier than fire ants though

Pretty sure they are only in Australia! Where Everything bites or stings

btw most everything bites and stings here too. though i must admit not to the extremes of Australia

 

[EweSheep]

My family and I moved down to Layafette, LA around 1977 (the year of the hellish snow storm you Northerners had, we missed it

) and the thrill of checking out the backyard I had to go. Upon opening the door, Mom yelled GET YOUR SHOES ON!

"Why?" I asked. I wanted to go outside barefooted.

"Because there are fire ants!"

"Oh, those red ants.............nah, Mom, they are harmless" We do have black and red ants up here but none of them bit me.

Out I went, not listening to Mom, telling me to get back in the house.

A few steps later, OUCH OUCH.....oh they HURT! And those things crawling on me! Painful bites I tell ya!

Mom had a good chuckle and said "I told you so!"

Yeah Mom, I should HAVE listened to you.

Oh they are everywhere! Even on the Spanish moss, the kids at school would do some mean things, taking a piece of the moss, heavy with fire ants and shove them down to an unsuspecting kid and watch him howl, stomp and doing the fire ant dance. It was a laugh but I had mixed reaction to laugh and cry...I didn't handle that joke too well.

Didn't they use fire ants as a medical remedy back in those days?

 

[cazyaniamllover]

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you may be algeete(i don't spelled it right

) because -i am and i can take alot of the pain-but there are alots of hills where i live at and i run into them and they are about a foot high no joke

when i was real little i sat in a pile and my mom and grandma don't see till they were almost to my neck and i was still playing with my toys but was tcwie my size becasue i am algeete and i was biten ALOT

 

[EweSheep]

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you may be algeete(i don't spelled it right

) because -i am and i can take alot of the pain-but there are alots of hills where i live at and i run into them and they are about a foot high no joke

when i was real little i sat in a pile and my mom and grandma don't see till they were almost to my neck and i was still playing with my toys but was tcwie my size becasue i am algeete and i was biten ALOT

A foot HIGH???!!!! Oh my Lord!

 

[KristyHall]

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I don't know but my doctor told me I have a , in his words, "Disturbingly high pain tolerance"

when I was in my car accident, I didn't realize my shoulder was shattered until the doctor told me a week later. they missed it in the hospital. they actually didn't think I was that injured because I was warm and friendly and not screaming. My ribs were cracked, my shoulder fractured then developed avascular necrosis, i had been knocked out, part of my vertibres had been separated, my hips rotated and shifted, and my lower fescets damaged. (i know I misspelled a lot of that)

All know is I could not really use that one arm, and I kept getting head aches, and I had to sit down a lot, and laying on my chest made it feel like I couldn't breath.

 

[Dunkopf]

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Centimeters are 2.54 per inch. So you're probably talking MM vs CM. That would make them about 1/2" long which is pretty big.