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Solenopsis invicta
ANGRY FIRE ANTS! BEWARE!! Poke their volcano mounds and they swarm!! Some mounds were 3 feet with several gallons of soil mounded up meanwhile, below the surface their underground foraging tunnels can radiate out 100 feet in all directions; you cna see their eggs in the picture
clay soil urban schoolyard
after several days of rain we found 100's of mound aroundour campus with millions of these ants; everyone was getting stung which produces pustules that are painful ant itch for days
Spotted on Apr 29, 2017
Submitted on Apr 30, 2017
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