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Beware Of The Stinging, Biting Ants
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There are many ant nest mounds everywhere across Anguilla. It is amazing how tiny creatures can amass so much soft soil, sometimes from extremely hard areas of earth, to protect their swarming colonies of workers, soldiers, queens and other castes.
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An ant mound in the Stoney Ground area
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Many of the ant mounds, where the queen ants reproduce, are simply spectacular thus capable of attracting much attention from curious persons, but there is always a price to pay – painful stinging and biting causing the hapless intruder to flee.
Children are particularly vulnerable to bites or stings in ant nests around the home, in the garden and on the playing field. Attacks by the creatures usually result in painful swellings and botches on the skin, sometimes requiring medical attention.
Parents and guardians are advised to protect their children from these ant nests mounds and to destroy the colonies using suitable insecticide or other means of control.
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One of the biting ants
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There have been occasions in Anguilla where droves of ants have attacked newly-born livestock, causing their deaths in some cases.
There are thousands of different species of ants throughout the world. Thankfully, some of them do not bite or sting but are nevertheless disgusting pests in many ways.
Notwithstanding all of this, they are a well-organised, hard-working, thrifty and united group of successful insects.
Some interesting facts about ants are that, like all insects, they have six legs with each leg having three joints. They can lift 20 times their body weight and each ant has some 250,000 brain cells. There are 10,000 million cells in a human brain. This means that a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size of a human brain.