Fire Ant Raft.

Posted by Alex in Animal, Pictures on August 27, 2006 at 3:48 pm


This living raft is made of thousands if not millions of fire ants – it is about one foot across in size. Kyle Pias, a BugGuide user who took this photo, wrote:

This raft was seen floating in a flooded portion of the Kissimmee Prarie. Im prettty sure the genus is Solenopsis, but Im not sure which species, and I doubt that its identifiable from this picture. It was taken from about 5 feet above the subject from a swamp buggy, and there was about 3 feet of water on the ground, so there was no getting a closer shot.

Can you imagine what would happen if something walked into one of these rafts? I cant even think about what to do if that happened, I doubt even dunking underwater would accomplish anything…

Eesh, scary little buggers

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3 comments to "Fire Ant Raft."

  1. Ant
    August 27th, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    Where is this on Digg? Please post the exact URL from Digg!

  2. Alex
    August 27th, 2006 at 10:05 pm

    Ant, here it is: Link.

  3. chiefjoe
    August 28th, 2006 at 10:23 am

    Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch

    That hurts just to look at. We were draining our pool one day, and as I was going around scrubbing the walls, I found a submerged fire ant bed. The hard way. I got about 25 bites on my foot, each swelled up as big as a nickel. Owie.


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