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.