Mr Soh SG Anyone see those big black ants the size of a 50 cent coin or bigger before? To be precise the size of a bee or hornet. They dont have wings but more look like spiders These are jungle ants and can be found in forested or catchment areas like macritchie...What are the species called or do they have a colony or lonely dwellers? Imagine these ants invade yr home but till now have not seen any in urban areas
KumSioJui SG I believe you are referring to the red fire ants. Those you can find deep in the jungles of some of our training areas - plenty of it everywhere and they bite really painful ok. There are lots of stories abt fire ants, one story was these group of guys were on a exercise navigating thru the dense jungle and they decided to camp for the night. So dinner as always was canned rations and mebbe some candy bars and chocolates bought from the small canteen, mebbe even a can of coke before bedtime. And being as predictable as ever they dumped their sugar coated wrappers and garbage not far from where they slept. Then sometime during the night felt "pin pricks" all over the body, when they shone their torch light saw a HUGE swam of red fire ants all over the place crawling in them boots, bags and equipment. And all of them ran for their lives. Me? I like to find their nest then just drip molten wax over the enterance
Sl!m ShAdyz SG Originally posted by Mr Soh: Anyone see those big black ants the size of a 50 cent coin or bigger before? To be precise the size of a bee or hornet. They dont have wings but more look like spiders These are jungle ants and can be found in forested or catchment areas like macritchie...What are the species called or do they have a colony or lonely dwellers? Imagine these ants invade yr home but till now have not seen any in urban areas50 cent? lol
chanff8 SG ppl pour petrol and set fire to their nest in the US. there was a fire ants overpopulation in the western countries before and the governments spent millions trying to get rid of them
Mr Soh SG sure it is fireants? These ants look like wasp or hornet and are have a black lower body with lines across it.
