Huge ants in Macritichie

• Mr Soh

  6 Dec 05, 00:18

  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

  6 Dec 05, 00:45

  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
• ubermagicseller

  6 Dec 05, 08:05

  
• Sl!m ShAdyz

  6 Dec 05, 08:09

  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 areas

  50 cent? lol
• chanff8

  6 Dec 05, 09:20

  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
• JennTS

  6 Dec 05, 09:28

  Originally posted by ubermagicseller:

  

  i recall seeing fire ants this size (workers) during a sch camp in malaysia.
• kops21

  6 Dec 05, 09:30

  commando ants.
• de_middle

  6 Dec 05, 09:32

  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 areas

  Buy some kerosene, pour over them & light them up.....they'll pop like pop corns
• Diehard_89

  6 Dec 05, 09:35

  Originally posted by kops21:

  commando ants.

  haha
  good one
  then what you call the black ants?
• dark_snowboy

  6 Dec 05, 09:38

  Originally posted by Diehard_89:

  haha
  good one
  then what you call the black ants?

  privates
• no_1_idiot

  6 Dec 05, 09:59

  Good one
• Mr Soh

  6 Dec 05, 10:26

  sure it is fireants? These ants look like wasp or hornet and are have a black lower body with lines across it.
• Mr Soh

  6 Dec 05, 10:29

  I dont think they are firenats because they dont look red or orange
  
  Fireant in this pic:
  
• KumSioJui

  6 Dec 05, 11:48

  nt talking abt those skinny ants.
  
  this is the ant I'm toking abt
  
  
  
  
• SBS9828X

  6 Dec 05, 12:07

  the biggest ive seen is the size of a 20c coin... just outside my house(rubbish chute)