Fire Ants 101

• Fire Ants can sting repeatedly.

• Fire Ants look very much like ordinary ants.

• Fire Ants are reddish brown to black in color.

• Fire Ants feed mostly on young plants and seeds.

• Fire Ants are well-known for their venomous sting.

• Fire Ants are social insects, live in colonies and build mounds of loose soil.

• A Fire Ant mound may contain up to 300,000 ants.

• Some Fire Ant colonies have only one queen, whereas others have many.

• Fire Ants do not hibernate and are renowned for their ability to survive extreme conditions.

• Fire Ants were accidentally brought to the United States on a cargo boat from South America.