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Guess who’s coming to dinner? Fire ants.
Roberto Pereira, Department of Entomology, University of Florida

The name alone is synonymous with heat, and these ants pack a lot of heat in their venom...

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The Pseudomyrma ants of the American tropics establish separate whole small colonies inside individual enlarged thorns of the plants from which they subsequently rush out and sting any animal (or person) who disturbs their own host plant.

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