Fire Ant Traditional Cache
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This cache is located on the campus at Mississippi State
University.
Fire ants are known for their lively and aggressive
behavior,
swarming over anyone or anything that disturbs their nest,
often
attacking wild animals, baby animals, pets or people, in some
instances, even killing them. Their painful stings affect about
40%
of people in infested areas each year. Twenty million people a
year
are stung by fireants in the United States!
When these pesky critters invade an area, they do it with
a
vengeance. There will be enormous numbers of them which can
dramatically reduce populations of native ants, other insects,
and
even ground-nesting wildlife. Watch out. They invade homes,
school
yards, athletic fields, golf courses, and parks. They will
damage
crops and electrical equipment, costing humans billions of
dollars
each year in repairs and eradication.
Ants have been digging through the dirt for eons. Tunneling
out
of jungles and forests and into back yards of humans on every
continent except Antarctica. Ant fossils date back to the times
of
dinosaurs.
They are one of the strongest animals on Earth, with the
ability
to lift a seed five times its weight. Elephants are only able
to
lift objects one fifth their weight.
There are more than a million different kinds of insects in
the
world, most of them solitary insects. Fireants are social
insects.
They live in communities and depend on one another to gather
food,
help build the nest, raise and care for their young, and
protect
themselves from enemies. Without the support of their colony,
a
single fireant could not survive for very long.
Source:http://www.fireant.net/
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