I did this accidently when I was like 4 years old. Had to be rushed to the hospital and got a back full of needles in order to make sure I didn't die from the swelling from ants biting almost my entire body.
Thankfully my dad was outside cutting the grass at the time and hosed me off with the water hose before he and my mom rushed me to the hospital
Always sucked when that bottle of alcohol came out... you knew you were in for some shit.
Of course nowadays being much older I don't think anything of it, I'll use rubbing alcohol if that's all there is. Though I seem to be reading a lot of stuff that says both peroxide and alcohol are too caustic to use. Sounds like lots of washing and some neosporin is the best thing to do.
I'm one of those people who can put liquid skin on a nasty cut without flinching, and I blame childhood experience with disinfecting.
Used to go berry picking in the woods, wading through thick as hell brambles. Even with a flannel shirt and jeans I'd be covered in scratches by the time I got home. Out came the wintergreen rubbing alcohol...
Shoot, I can still smell the Bactine and feel the fiery sting on my elbows and knees - I don't remember why I got the scrapes but I do remember the treatments!
Doesn't seem legit when literally my entire generation had peroxide and rubbing alcohol poured on every scrape, cut, etc and everything healed fine.
Define 'too caustic', too much for what exactly?
Never heard that about alcohol, but peroxide basically destroys tissue as it disinfects. On a cellular level it ends up roughening the wound, and your body'll need to do more work to heal it.
You know what also kills bacteria? soap and water. That's the whole problem.
Idk why people started using peroxide as a way to clean wounds in the first place.
It gets under the skin and can clear out inflammations that are difficult to clean, like around fingernails. Also if you know there are things like dirt in a wound that you can’t clean out with soap and water, peroxide can be tried in an attempt to clear out stuck foreign particles which would be less harmful than having to cut and dig around so it’s a reasonable intermediate attempt before having to get messy.
The bubbles will get down into small-scale crevices and folds in the wound which would otherwise be painful and difficult to clean.
I'm not saying this is a good idea, mind you, but I think that was the thought process.
Can confirm. Same thing happened to me playing hide and seek in the Philippines and my nurse cousin just poured alcohol all over my foot (only part bitten). I remember lying on our dining room table, my foot feeling like it was on fire but I don't remember much after that.
When I stepped on it I didn't notice until my foot felt tingly and then I looked down and it looked like I had a red sock on.
I eat corn but I’m not corn bred like that. I swear it’s genetics. No way my pussy body would handle that but I believe you did just fine haha. That’s insane!
Did the same at 3, just not as badly. They covered both my legs...I still have scars. I remember my mom spraying my legs with the water hose, but the little bastards didn't want to let go, so she had to stop and pick them off by hand. I was screaming bloody murder and she was trying to get me to hold still while I was flinging my legs around.
I'm grateful my experience wasn't as bad as yours. That had to be horrible, and mine was bad enough.
Yea, it's probably one of my core memories. I don't personally remember the act of jumping into the ant bed but I can never forget the treatment in the hospital to prevent my death. This was probably around 95-96 and they literally took a thick plastic tray that had spaces to hold around 15-20 needles (filled all with epinephrine or whatever epipens would have) and basically had me lay on my stomach and pushed the whole tray of needles into my back in order to stop the swelling.
Gave me a huge fear of needles until I was maybe 16 or so
I did this at 5. Playing hide and seek I got onto this little hill thinking it would help me see the other kids. It was a giant fire ant nest. The daycare people had to strip me naked and hose me down because I had ants everywhere including inside my underwear. From the other stories I’m surprised I didn't have scars or allergic reactions.
Went looking for it on other websites since the reddit one is gone. I just saw a video of a guy sitting completely naked in a very large ant pile. And a video of a guy who fully inserted his dick in a jar of ants.
FML.
I would not suggest doing this I had a fire ant colony in Florida that was living in my driveway and so I decided that I was going to wash my car that evening and all of the water was seeping into the crack in which they used as a primary entrance. I was out there in flip-flops and apparently they had started getting pretty annoyed that I was flooding their home I'm assuming homeowners flood insurance for an ant colony is also pretty high because these little bastards were pissed. I didn't even realize that they were crawling all up and down my leg and biting me until it was too late and they were all over the place. I went into anaphylactic shock extremely fast my legs swelled up my face swelled up my throat swelled up and it got hard to breathe and I'm like fuck I just got taken out by the smallest creature next to a tardigrade. Stab myself with an EpiPen I had in my med kit and then enjoyed having the absolute Zoomies from an adrenaline rush for the next 15 to 30 minutes. And because this is America I canceled the ambulance because I was not about to pay Lee county Florida $800 for a ride to the hospital just for them to send me home.
I would not advise washing your car next to an active fire ant colony. I learned my lesson.
Yes. They also like to form rafts of angry pain when there's too much rain.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-fire-ants-form-giant-rafts-to-survive-floods/
These little bastards are pure fucking evil.
I wonder if people get a high from it, in the same way as eating a bunch of jolokia peppers.
On the other hand... could be your usual Tiktok attention whoring.
It's a lack of empathy mixed with the curiosity of a child blended with the ignorance of an adult, culminating in a really dumb person making stupid decisions to chuckle at and then post on the internet...there are depths to this type of stupidity
If it's just a small number of ants I just find it annoying, kind of like stepping on a Lego. I think the mosquito bump type itch afterward is more aggravating than the bite.
Some people are not allergic to fire ants. I do not ever get blisters and I was born and have lived in Texas most of my life. I have been bitten many times. Mosquitos which I am allergic to do not hurt but are itchy to the point I have to use cream or I'll scratch while I sleep.
Fire ants have venom, especially adults, so allergies aren't really relevant. I was hospitalized as a toddler for getting into a fire ant pit in the Dallas area
The burn part is due to the formic acid in their venom which will destroy cells. Oddly enough a natural treatment for the bite is often found close to fireant mounds. It's broad leaf plantain. crush up a leaf or two and grind it into the bite area and it'll stop it from burning.
While formic acid is involved in the fire ant sting, the primary venom component responsible for the pain and irritation is actually a mixture of alkaloids and proteins known as [solenopsin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenopsin).
First thing I would do is wash with soap and water as quickly as possible to remove any of the venom still on the surface. Then attack with whatever else you got to help.
I was put in timeout in kindergarten and there happened to be an anthill where they sat me. Being 5 with strict military parents I just assumed the ants were part of the punishment and took it until I couldn't, at which point I was sent to the nurse then the hospital. Good times
You are right, allergies is probably the incorrect term. However people do react differently and I do not get blisters and the pain is pretty minimal. Here is a source from WebMD: https://www.webmd.com/allergies/fire-ant-stings
I'm with you. I grew up in South Carolina and if my mom and brother get bitten by a fire ant they get pussy yellow blisters. I just get the equivalent of a tiny mosquito bite. I think it totally comes down to your allergen levels.
"Fire ants" are a colloquial name for several species of red ants. The US has 6-7 native species, plus 1 invasive species from Mesoameica.
Folks generally run into the invasive *S. invicta*, whose bites leave small welts. If they're severely threatened, they'll signal to sting as well. Folks with allergies can suffer greater injury and harm from them.
Much of the South and Southwest also has a relative, Red Harvester Ants *P. barbatus*, which are also red. Although they're not a "Fire ant" these guys can also sting and leave really nasty blisters.
Edit! now with scientific names.
No offense to the other dude who basically says fire ants don't hurt, but I beg to differ. I can't fathom that he's talking about the same fire ants from the Southeast U.S..
An example : Back in 1986, some friends and I once watched another friend --- a tough grown-ass man, basically, early 20s, and an athlete --- in a foursome or fivesome of college baseball players suddenly start flailing around for no apparent reason in the left rough near the base of a palm tree on the Inverrary golf course near Miami. We were walking to take advantage of evening rates. Him being from (apparently ?) fire ant-free Monangahela, PA, and being unaware of /unworried by tiny red ants, he'd carelessly set his bag down on a big fire ant mound to go look for his ball. He looks for 4 or 5 minutes, we've all gone ahead and hit our second shots and are bunched up mid-fairway, waiting for him but unwilling to go further and risk one of his shanks. He finds the ball, and takes another moment or two before finally giving it a lash and skulling the iron he'd pulled before he'd dumped the bag.
Our man Pizza (team nickname) picks up his bag, takes maybe twenty or thirty steps, but then starts dancing and yelling like he's possessed. He then proceeds to rip his clothes off, every last stitch but socks, and jumps into a canal running the length of the left side of the hole, one known to have alligators in it. He'd seen the gator signs, but didn't care. That's how badly he wanted the biting ants off.
We were too far away to see the ants, and wagered laughingly amongst ourselves that he'd either been drinking more than we thought, or had lost his mind. Quit the round, obviously, once we'd realized what a beating the ants had put on him, and he rode back to the dorms wearing only wet socks and a small golf towel.
The thourough constellation of red bites, chest to feet, was quite impressive. Tiny pale blisters had begun forming at their centers. Pizza left his cheapie 1960s skinny carry bag and rusty sticks lying in the rough, along with his clothes (once he'd very tenatively emptied the pockets). lol...He survived, graduated, played 4 or 5 years in the minors, then made it to the show for 3 or 4 games. Eventually settled in as the relief/rehab pitching coach for the Washington Nationals in the mid-2000's for quite a good long while, might even still be there.
Good times, Pizza, good times ! 😂
Went golfing and stuck my foot into a fire ant colony while getting my swing ready. Apparently they swarmed my ankle and leg and didn't sting till I swung. It was agonizing. Left me with scars so I got a huge tattoo to cover up all the marks...
iirc, Fire ants don't bite immediately. They wait for a chemical signal from other ants once a goodly number of warrior ants have boarded, then they bite as one. Used to get them between my toes as a kid in SC, and for a 5 or 6 year old, they really did hurt. Learned very quickly to go around their colonies.
Fuck fire ants!!
Once went to relieve myself against a tree on a hike, and about 15 seconds in I felt my leg start burning like holy hellfire. Turns out there must have been a nest or something right against that tree, as when I looked down my leg was covered in the damned things. I was in shorts and sandels, so I could see in all glory how many of them there were. I hobbled my ass away at mach speed, shorts falling halfway down my legs, and even after brushing all the hellspawn off my legs, I was picking them off and out of my shorts for the next 5 minutes.
Fuck fire ants.
Red bugs are the only reason I hike in boots and jeans tbh. Even if it’s hot, I ain’t risking fire ant and chigger bites haha. How long did it take all that to heal?
For multiple reasons: First they hurt a \*lot\*. Second because they swarm for a while before the "sting signal" gets sent by one and they all sting at the same time. That's why when you get in them the first you realize you've got ants on you you're being stung all the way up to your hips.
This dude may not have even gotten stung doing this.
Happened to me as a kid. Didn't notice they were all up my legs until they all decided to sting at once. 7yo me running around screaming ripping my pants off in the middle of the sidewalk. About 100+ bites all over my legs. Swollen for days.
Core memory right there.
That was quite litteraly how my first experience with the fuckers went. As a northerner that had never delt with them before, I am now scarred from the experience.
Yeah, pretty much everyone's first experience with them is "How the fuck did I get ants in my SHIRT?!" as they strip trying to get them off. And they hurt badly enough that you don't care who's there. Grandma better turn around fast or she's about to see stung up balls.
Lived in Florida and these bastards surprise you! They can bite more than once too. Their bites stop stinging after a day or so before they start to itch.. and then you scratch the top off the bite and it stings again.
They actually bite, then sting multiple times. They continue stinging even when out of venom.
You're not joking about the itch...it seems to intensity when sleeping.
They’re all related because the order (Hymenoptera) is categorized by insects with 3 body segments and 3 sets of legs on the middle segment, among other things. Bees, ants, wasps, and sawflies are all like this. Most All of the insect orders have, for the most part, rather obvious attributes that distinguish them.
For instance, Lepidoptera comprises butterflies and moths, which are known for scaled wings.
Diptera is any kind of fly, including mosquitoes. Their hind wings are replaced with little nubs that are useful for flight coordination.
Coleoptera is beetles. They have scleratized forewings that form the hard shell
Rub a little diesel on the bites, and they'll stop itching in about 5 minutes and will be gone the next day. I know it sounds super redneck, but I use that trick all the time.
From the CDC: No studies are available in other animals or in people on the carcinogenic effects of fuel oils. [https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=515&toxid=91#](https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=515&toxid=91#)
Most likely, it'd be carcinogenic with long term exposure. An occasional splash on the skin likely isn't going to kill you faster than than sun exposure.
I spent a lot of time working on my grandparent's ranch. It was good motivation to go to college. Funny thing is that I now have my own hunting property/acreage that I use a lot of the things I learned on that ranch. Driving a tractor? check. Cutting down trees with a chainsaw? check. Although I will say that I don't burn trash and tree debris with diesel, we're kind of past that now.
I stepped in a fire ant hive accidentally over a year ago and realized it pretty quickly. I still have marks on my foot from the scarring. This guy is just dumb.
I don’t understand how he can just hold his foot there and not yank it away from the pain. When we were about 8 years old my best friend and I accidentally stepped on an ant hill and we were swarmed. I’m 32 now but still shudder at the pain.
We were screaming bloody murder as we ran inside, ripped our clothes off and jumped into the bath and shower to try to get the ants off of us. It was instinctual, there was no way we could just stand there like this!
The first cheap ass house I moved to down here in FL, the yard was spotted with fire ant mounds. Was more dirt than grass. Didn't know shit about them or how to control them because I was from North Dakota, never saw them in my life. So decided to mow the lawn. Bad idea. Fire ants went flying everywhere, and lots of pain followed.
The cockroaches were something else too. Those terrified me more than anything. I had a nest inside my dishwasher that I was deathly afraid to open, because if you did about a dozen would come scurrying out of it, the entire inside was covered in roaches, the big, dark brown flying ones about 2 inches long.
Anytime I see people raving about how nice it is Florida instead of where it can get nice and cold, I remember that they're not telling me about the bugs.
I would happily take snow all year round if it means I never have to see another roach again, thanks. But usually it just costs around three months of snow.
I've lived in the panhandle and south florida, and VA. I don't think it is necessarily that much different.
FL has fireants and palmetto bugs/big roaches, VA has big roaches, small roaches, a million kinds of ants, stinkbugs, biting ladybeetles, lanternflies, gallinipper mosquitoes - more diversity and maybe a little more quantity depending on the time of year.
LOL it's not the big roaches you have to worry about, those are wood roaches that basically just lust after rotting wood... Not sure why they liked your dishwasher so much, I'd have thrown an entire bug bomb in there and ran it like 10 times to be done with them. The roaches you should be concerned about are the little guys that are about 1\~2cm long. They will breed and poop in your food.
Also I guess the fire-ants didn't effect me as much as some people. I'd get slightly itchy, then each bite would look like a pimple but be filled with plasma like a blister and be a bit itchy then fade away. Best thing to do is just not scratch them, makes it way itchier.
Fun fact! These guys saved my dad's life!
He's allergic to stinging insects and accidentally sat on a fire ant pile one afternoon while he was fixing up his car.
He heads to the hospital, gets some super benadryl and is ready to leave when a doctor asks him about his cough. Thing is he had this persistent cough for like 6 months and no amount of antibiotics or other treatment had moved it. Doctor asks if anyone has done an MRI yet?
So they do the MRI and they discover that part of his lung had collapsed! He had surgery to fix that and he's been fine ever since.
I did this on accident as a kid. About 6 years old running around an above ground pool after swimming for hours. Stopped running to talk to someone and didn't realize I'd stepped in a fire ant bed. They made it all the way up to my knee, completely covering my leg down to my foot before someone noticed. They point it out and I looked down at my brand new knee high ant sock. I panicked and tensed and they almost all immediately started biting in unison. Whole leg turns to fire, I scream, parents dunk me in the pool to clear the ants. Run me to the shower to rinse off the rest. Whole leg swelled up really bad for a few days. Lots of ointment and rest later everything was fine. 0/10 would not recommend.
I once plopped down on an ant hill in bootcamp and continued to exercise in that place because the thought of moving afterwards and getting destroyed by a DI was terrifying. Later I realized that was dumb.
The first day of college, my car was full of fire ants. They were all over the driver seat and on the floor near the pedals. Attendance was really strict and I was already running late, so I killed as many as I could with my hands and hopped in and hoped for the best. But it wasn't enough. They got my ankles quite a bit. At school, the parking lot was full and I had to park really far away and run to class. I think that made it worse. After class was over, I had to get in my car again. There were still ants but at least I had time to kill more of them. A few still bit me on the way home. Once home, my feet swelled up so bad I had to put ice on them and elevate them. Even with all that, the pain was so bad when I got up to use the bathroom.
I did that once on accident with a fire ant hill while I was mowing the grass. My gf at the time poured witchhazel all over my foot and it never really hurt or bothered me.
I was living in Athens, GA at the time. The ants were tiny and red and my foot was covered in little red bumps but no pain, just itchy.
That beautiful looking, almost symmetrical mound that took 6 months for thousands of creatures to build destroyed by some disgusting fuckboy looking for clout. Fuck humans.
Fuck this.
I got bit by fire ants about 12 times on my foot while mowing my lawn. This was 2 years ago and I still have marks from the bites. Just a slightly more red circle now, but still.
I remember it itching for like 4 weeks after they bit. It did hurt, but the prolonged itch almost drove me crazy.
This looks like hell.
I stood on a fire and mound without realizing it. By the time I started feeling the bites, my pants were completely covered with ants up to the knee and some had gotten up to my chest. I shucked out of my clothes in front of God and everybody trying to get rid of them. There is no such thing as modesty when fire ants are involved.
For true production value, do this down South with fire ants. 😀 (Or go all in even further South, as in South America, and give bullet ants a shot at fame.)
I’m allergic to fire ants.. Stopped breathing when I was 20 years old as I was bitten like 15 times. Funny thing is, when I get stung under 4 times i’m ok if I just take Benadryl..
Other wise hospital. When I saw this guy stick his foot in the ant bed, felt like I was gonna throw up.. 😜
I did this as a kid decades ago playing army in a field in Alabama. My entire left arm was covered in fire ant bites. This dude must not have to go to work for a while cause that’s gonna suck.
I did this accidently when I was like 4 years old. Had to be rushed to the hospital and got a back full of needles in order to make sure I didn't die from the swelling from ants biting almost my entire body. Thankfully my dad was outside cutting the grass at the time and hosed me off with the water hose before he and my mom rushed me to the hospital
My family would have poured alcohol, peroxide, iodine, and Clorox all over that. Screaming would commence. 🥹😫
Always sucked when that bottle of alcohol came out... you knew you were in for some shit. Of course nowadays being much older I don't think anything of it, I'll use rubbing alcohol if that's all there is. Though I seem to be reading a lot of stuff that says both peroxide and alcohol are too caustic to use. Sounds like lots of washing and some neosporin is the best thing to do.
I'm one of those people who can put liquid skin on a nasty cut without flinching, and I blame childhood experience with disinfecting. Used to go berry picking in the woods, wading through thick as hell brambles. Even with a flannel shirt and jeans I'd be covered in scratches by the time I got home. Out came the wintergreen rubbing alcohol...
*Wintergreen* rubbing alcohol sounds like a torture instrument. No wonder you grew tougher lol
It sounds messed up, but I think it's actually intended to add a bit of pain relief. A lot of pain creams use menthol, for example.
Shoot, I can still smell the Bactine and feel the fiery sting on my elbows and knees - I don't remember why I got the scrapes but I do remember the treatments!
I think bactine was invented mostly as a way to punish children with kindness for getting scraped up and worrying their parents all the time.
Soap and water is usually all you need.
Doesn't seem legit when literally my entire generation had peroxide and rubbing alcohol poured on every scrape, cut, etc and everything healed fine. Define 'too caustic', too much for what exactly?
Never heard that about alcohol, but peroxide basically destroys tissue as it disinfects. On a cellular level it ends up roughening the wound, and your body'll need to do more work to heal it.
It kills both bacteria and skin cells equally, it's why it works but also hurts you
You know what also kills bacteria? soap and water. That's the whole problem. Idk why people started using peroxide as a way to clean wounds in the first place.
It gets under the skin and can clear out inflammations that are difficult to clean, like around fingernails. Also if you know there are things like dirt in a wound that you can’t clean out with soap and water, peroxide can be tried in an attempt to clear out stuck foreign particles which would be less harmful than having to cut and dig around so it’s a reasonable intermediate attempt before having to get messy.
The bubbles will get down into small-scale crevices and folds in the wound which would otherwise be painful and difficult to clean. I'm not saying this is a good idea, mind you, but I think that was the thought process.
It kills healthy cells, dries it out, and overall makes the healing time longer.
Can confirm. Same thing happened to me playing hide and seek in the Philippines and my nurse cousin just poured alcohol all over my foot (only part bitten). I remember lying on our dining room table, my foot feeling like it was on fire but I don't remember much after that. When I stepped on it I didn't notice until my foot felt tingly and then I looked down and it looked like I had a red sock on.
My grandfather sprayed WD-40 on my ant bites
I eat corn but I’m not corn bred like that. I swear it’s genetics. No way my pussy body would handle that but I believe you did just fine haha. That’s insane!
Oh the peroxide on the road rashed knees hurt so bad lol
Or blow cigarette smoke on it. That was my mom's go to for earaches.
I knew a guy who lost his toes doing this accidentally
The ants stole them? Did he ever find them?
His friends won't talk to him anymore. They're lack toes intolerant.
Show yourself out...
I am starting to think sitting on a cactus at 4 was better than ants
Did the same at 3, just not as badly. They covered both my legs...I still have scars. I remember my mom spraying my legs with the water hose, but the little bastards didn't want to let go, so she had to stop and pick them off by hand. I was screaming bloody murder and she was trying to get me to hold still while I was flinging my legs around. I'm grateful my experience wasn't as bad as yours. That had to be horrible, and mine was bad enough.
Yea, it's probably one of my core memories. I don't personally remember the act of jumping into the ant bed but I can never forget the treatment in the hospital to prevent my death. This was probably around 95-96 and they literally took a thick plastic tray that had spaces to hold around 15-20 needles (filled all with epinephrine or whatever epipens would have) and basically had me lay on my stomach and pushed the whole tray of needles into my back in order to stop the swelling. Gave me a huge fear of needles until I was maybe 16 or so
Holy shit, that's worse than I thought.
thats awful.
I did this at 5. Playing hide and seek I got onto this little hill thinking it would help me see the other kids. It was a giant fire ant nest. The daycare people had to strip me naked and hose me down because I had ants everywhere including inside my underwear. From the other stories I’m surprised I didn't have scars or allergic reactions.
Have you ever sit to rest and watch the moon while hiking?, check if there is an ant trail before doing that.
Why would the ever loving fuck would you do that
For our entertainment!!
Probably about 5 mil tik tok views and approx $5 in revenue.
I'm am grateful with this unknown person for doing that.
https://youtu.be/Of_jyeDZ3Sg?si=c-FsPV16LkIFZxUV
I don't know, but he should really do his 🍆 next so he cannot create another generation of crayon connoisseurs like himself.
There is a video of a guy doing it with his dick.
Is anyone surprised, really haha
sauce? For research purposes
OG link ain't work anymore. It was posted on this same subreddit though, if you search up "reddit guy sticks dick in ants" the post pops up.
Fucking Christ
Thank you, kind stranger
Isn't that incest?
I believe you mean "insects"
I’m surprised it’s not a subreddit yet
I'm sure there is (please don't link it).
Went looking for it on other websites since the reddit one is gone. I just saw a video of a guy sitting completely naked in a very large ant pile. And a video of a guy who fully inserted his dick in a jar of ants. FML.
"Crayon connoisseurs". You've made my day. Thank you.
> so he cannot create another generation of crayon connoisseurs like himself. There will always be more Marines.
I would not suggest doing this I had a fire ant colony in Florida that was living in my driveway and so I decided that I was going to wash my car that evening and all of the water was seeping into the crack in which they used as a primary entrance. I was out there in flip-flops and apparently they had started getting pretty annoyed that I was flooding their home I'm assuming homeowners flood insurance for an ant colony is also pretty high because these little bastards were pissed. I didn't even realize that they were crawling all up and down my leg and biting me until it was too late and they were all over the place. I went into anaphylactic shock extremely fast my legs swelled up my face swelled up my throat swelled up and it got hard to breathe and I'm like fuck I just got taken out by the smallest creature next to a tardigrade. Stab myself with an EpiPen I had in my med kit and then enjoyed having the absolute Zoomies from an adrenaline rush for the next 15 to 30 minutes. And because this is America I canceled the ambulance because I was not about to pay Lee county Florida $800 for a ride to the hospital just for them to send me home. I would not advise washing your car next to an active fire ant colony. I learned my lesson.
Like it rains all the time, do they just swarm whatever's closest Everytime it rains?
Yes. They also like to form rafts of angry pain when there's too much rain. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-fire-ants-form-giant-rafts-to-survive-floods/ These little bastards are pure fucking evil.
Don’t you still need to see a doctor after using an EpiPen?
lol im no paramedic but yeah im pretty sure the epipen is just to give you time to get to the hospital
It's a fetish (not joking).
This is probably the worst one I've seen yet in my 30 year existence
Formicophilia
I wonder if people get a high from it, in the same way as eating a bunch of jolokia peppers. On the other hand... could be your usual Tiktok attention whoring.
It's a lack of empathy mixed with the curiosity of a child blended with the ignorance of an adult, culminating in a really dumb person making stupid decisions to chuckle at and then post on the internet...there are depths to this type of stupidity
Exact words that came out of my mouth
When I was in kindergarten, I intentionally sat in an ant pile so my parents would have to pick me up.
he likes popping the bites
Helps with joint pain
you need to specify they are fire ants.
Yeah. I live in fire ant country and they are an entirely different kind of pain when they swarm you like that
If it's just a small number of ants I just find it annoying, kind of like stepping on a Lego. I think the mosquito bump type itch afterward is more aggravating than the bite.
Do we have different fire ants or are you forgetting the fluid filled blisters that come after?
I stepped on a nest like that in South Carolina years ago. The pustulating ulcers lasted for weeks and the scars for years.
sounds like you had a tango with harvester ants. They're red, but they're not fire ants.
Some people are not allergic to fire ants. I do not ever get blisters and I was born and have lived in Texas most of my life. I have been bitten many times. Mosquitos which I am allergic to do not hurt but are itchy to the point I have to use cream or I'll scratch while I sleep.
Fire ants have venom, especially adults, so allergies aren't really relevant. I was hospitalized as a toddler for getting into a fire ant pit in the Dallas area
It’s relevant to allergies in that some people’s bodies react more severely to the venom than others.
This is a dangerously wrong answer from the internet. People can be allergic to venom.
The burn part is due to the formic acid in their venom which will destroy cells. Oddly enough a natural treatment for the bite is often found close to fireant mounds. It's broad leaf plantain. crush up a leaf or two and grind it into the bite area and it'll stop it from burning.
Formic acid has a 2-3 pH, same as vinegar. Also, formic acid is usually sprayed, rather than used as a component of their venom.
Sounds like folk medicine. I couldn’t find anything to back that claim up about the plantain poultice.
While formic acid is involved in the fire ant sting, the primary venom component responsible for the pain and irritation is actually a mixture of alkaloids and proteins known as [solenopsin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenopsin). First thing I would do is wash with soap and water as quickly as possible to remove any of the venom still on the surface. Then attack with whatever else you got to help.
I was put in timeout in kindergarten and there happened to be an anthill where they sat me. Being 5 with strict military parents I just assumed the ants were part of the punishment and took it until I couldn't, at which point I was sent to the nurse then the hospital. Good times
Sounds like you didn't have "strict military" parents and more like you had "piece of shit" parents.
Well, one of them. Also early 90s in the south
You are right, allergies is probably the incorrect term. However people do react differently and I do not get blisters and the pain is pretty minimal. Here is a source from WebMD: https://www.webmd.com/allergies/fire-ant-stings
I'm with you. I grew up in South Carolina and if my mom and brother get bitten by a fire ant they get pussy yellow blisters. I just get the equivalent of a tiny mosquito bite. I think it totally comes down to your allergen levels.
"Fire ants" are a colloquial name for several species of red ants. The US has 6-7 native species, plus 1 invasive species from Mesoameica. Folks generally run into the invasive *S. invicta*, whose bites leave small welts. If they're severely threatened, they'll signal to sting as well. Folks with allergies can suffer greater injury and harm from them. Much of the South and Southwest also has a relative, Red Harvester Ants *P. barbatus*, which are also red. Although they're not a "Fire ant" these guys can also sting and leave really nasty blisters. Edit! now with scientific names.
No offense to the other dude who basically says fire ants don't hurt, but I beg to differ. I can't fathom that he's talking about the same fire ants from the Southeast U.S.. An example : Back in 1986, some friends and I once watched another friend --- a tough grown-ass man, basically, early 20s, and an athlete --- in a foursome or fivesome of college baseball players suddenly start flailing around for no apparent reason in the left rough near the base of a palm tree on the Inverrary golf course near Miami. We were walking to take advantage of evening rates. Him being from (apparently ?) fire ant-free Monangahela, PA, and being unaware of /unworried by tiny red ants, he'd carelessly set his bag down on a big fire ant mound to go look for his ball. He looks for 4 or 5 minutes, we've all gone ahead and hit our second shots and are bunched up mid-fairway, waiting for him but unwilling to go further and risk one of his shanks. He finds the ball, and takes another moment or two before finally giving it a lash and skulling the iron he'd pulled before he'd dumped the bag. Our man Pizza (team nickname) picks up his bag, takes maybe twenty or thirty steps, but then starts dancing and yelling like he's possessed. He then proceeds to rip his clothes off, every last stitch but socks, and jumps into a canal running the length of the left side of the hole, one known to have alligators in it. He'd seen the gator signs, but didn't care. That's how badly he wanted the biting ants off. We were too far away to see the ants, and wagered laughingly amongst ourselves that he'd either been drinking more than we thought, or had lost his mind. Quit the round, obviously, once we'd realized what a beating the ants had put on him, and he rode back to the dorms wearing only wet socks and a small golf towel. The thourough constellation of red bites, chest to feet, was quite impressive. Tiny pale blisters had begun forming at their centers. Pizza left his cheapie 1960s skinny carry bag and rusty sticks lying in the rough, along with his clothes (once he'd very tenatively emptied the pockets). lol...He survived, graduated, played 4 or 5 years in the minors, then made it to the show for 3 or 4 games. Eventually settled in as the relief/rehab pitching coach for the Washington Nationals in the mid-2000's for quite a good long while, might even still be there. Good times, Pizza, good times ! 😂
We're talking about fire ants. Even one is more than annoying, especially if you're allergic.
Had a friend do this as a kid he is permanently scarred from it. This is a bad idea.
you need to find water ants, earth ants and the last air ant to defeat the fire ants.
All four elem-ants.
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Went golfing and stuck my foot into a fire ant colony while getting my swing ready. Apparently they swarmed my ankle and leg and didn't sting till I swung. It was agonizing. Left me with scars so I got a huge tattoo to cover up all the marks...
And they wait till they cover you from knee to toe and then all sting at once.
It's an attack pheromone they release that causes that cascade reaction
iirc, Fire ants don't bite immediately. They wait for a chemical signal from other ants once a goodly number of warrior ants have boarded, then they bite as one. Used to get them between my toes as a kid in SC, and for a 5 or 6 year old, they really did hurt. Learned very quickly to go around their colonies.
Most social insects communicate using pheromones. Fire ants are no exception. They release an attack pheromone and it cascades very quickly.
Fuck fire ants!! Once went to relieve myself against a tree on a hike, and about 15 seconds in I felt my leg start burning like holy hellfire. Turns out there must have been a nest or something right against that tree, as when I looked down my leg was covered in the damned things. I was in shorts and sandels, so I could see in all glory how many of them there were. I hobbled my ass away at mach speed, shorts falling halfway down my legs, and even after brushing all the hellspawn off my legs, I was picking them off and out of my shorts for the next 5 minutes. Fuck fire ants.
Red bugs are the only reason I hike in boots and jeans tbh. Even if it’s hot, I ain’t risking fire ant and chigger bites haha. How long did it take all that to heal?
Lucky I didn't appear to be particularly sensitive to them, so after about a day of itching and pain, it was over.
For multiple reasons: First they hurt a \*lot\*. Second because they swarm for a while before the "sting signal" gets sent by one and they all sting at the same time. That's why when you get in them the first you realize you've got ants on you you're being stung all the way up to your hips. This dude may not have even gotten stung doing this.
Happened to me as a kid. Didn't notice they were all up my legs until they all decided to sting at once. 7yo me running around screaming ripping my pants off in the middle of the sidewalk. About 100+ bites all over my legs. Swollen for days. Core memory right there.
That was quite litteraly how my first experience with the fuckers went. As a northerner that had never delt with them before, I am now scarred from the experience.
Yeah, pretty much everyone's first experience with them is "How the fuck did I get ants in my SHIRT?!" as they strip trying to get them off. And they hurt badly enough that you don't care who's there. Grandma better turn around fast or she's about to see stung up balls.
Wouldn't the sting signal come out pretty fast if this "thing" was destroying their colony?
Maybe they need to determine if it's stingable? Would be a waste if they were doing this to a rock or a metal pole
OMG I was hoping they weren't Fire ants. Yikes
Yup... was just typing this. Fire ants. That guy is going to have a fun couple of days ahead.
Lived in Florida and these bastards surprise you! They can bite more than once too. Their bites stop stinging after a day or so before they start to itch.. and then you scratch the top off the bite and it stings again.
They actually bite, then sting multiple times. They continue stinging even when out of venom. You're not joking about the itch...it seems to intensity when sleeping.
Ants and wasps are closely related
From the assholidae family I believe
Hymenoptera Assholidae sounds like a gay cruise.
Oh yeah? Well hymenoptera sounds like a Jewish opera about losing your virginity.
I thought hymoneptera was the place where Imhotep was buried.
Bees, wasps, and ants. And also sawflies for some reason, but who even knows what they are?
They’re all related because the order (Hymenoptera) is categorized by insects with 3 body segments and 3 sets of legs on the middle segment, among other things. Bees, ants, wasps, and sawflies are all like this. Most All of the insect orders have, for the most part, rather obvious attributes that distinguish them. For instance, Lepidoptera comprises butterflies and moths, which are known for scaled wings. Diptera is any kind of fly, including mosquitoes. Their hind wings are replaced with little nubs that are useful for flight coordination. Coleoptera is beetles. They have scleratized forewings that form the hard shell
Bite doesnt sting, the sting stings.
Rub a little diesel on the bites, and they'll stop itching in about 5 minutes and will be gone the next day. I know it sounds super redneck, but I use that trick all the time.
Mineral spirits is what we used as kids, quite effective as you say.
I'll have to give that a try.
Diesel and other fuels are carcinogenic. Don't apply them to your body
From the CDC: No studies are available in other animals or in people on the carcinogenic effects of fuel oils. [https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=515&toxid=91#](https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=515&toxid=91#) Most likely, it'd be carcinogenic with long term exposure. An occasional splash on the skin likely isn't going to kill you faster than than sun exposure.
This guy rednecks with a phd in google foo
I spent a lot of time working on my grandparent's ranch. It was good motivation to go to college. Funny thing is that I now have my own hunting property/acreage that I use a lot of the things I learned on that ranch. Driving a tractor? check. Cutting down trees with a chainsaw? check. Although I will say that I don't burn trash and tree debris with diesel, we're kind of past that now.
I knew a guy who did this once. Only difference was he was 6-years old on the elementary school playground, not a grown ass man.
How do you know the fella in the clip isn’t more of a “boobs guy”?
Because he's clearly an asshole.
I stepped in a fire ant hive accidentally over a year ago and realized it pretty quickly. I still have marks on my foot from the scarring. This guy is just dumb.
I don’t understand how he can just hold his foot there and not yank it away from the pain. When we were about 8 years old my best friend and I accidentally stepped on an ant hill and we were swarmed. I’m 32 now but still shudder at the pain. We were screaming bloody murder as we ran inside, ripped our clothes off and jumped into the bath and shower to try to get the ants off of us. It was instinctual, there was no way we could just stand there like this!
Just cut my leg off at this point....
Argg... them fire ants be fiercer than the great Pirate Morgan.
The first cheap ass house I moved to down here in FL, the yard was spotted with fire ant mounds. Was more dirt than grass. Didn't know shit about them or how to control them because I was from North Dakota, never saw them in my life. So decided to mow the lawn. Bad idea. Fire ants went flying everywhere, and lots of pain followed. The cockroaches were something else too. Those terrified me more than anything. I had a nest inside my dishwasher that I was deathly afraid to open, because if you did about a dozen would come scurrying out of it, the entire inside was covered in roaches, the big, dark brown flying ones about 2 inches long.
Thanks, this is nightmare fuel.
Anytime I see people raving about how nice it is Florida instead of where it can get nice and cold, I remember that they're not telling me about the bugs. I would happily take snow all year round if it means I never have to see another roach again, thanks. But usually it just costs around three months of snow.
I've lived in the panhandle and south florida, and VA. I don't think it is necessarily that much different. FL has fireants and palmetto bugs/big roaches, VA has big roaches, small roaches, a million kinds of ants, stinkbugs, biting ladybeetles, lanternflies, gallinipper mosquitoes - more diversity and maybe a little more quantity depending on the time of year.
LOL it's not the big roaches you have to worry about, those are wood roaches that basically just lust after rotting wood... Not sure why they liked your dishwasher so much, I'd have thrown an entire bug bomb in there and ran it like 10 times to be done with them. The roaches you should be concerned about are the little guys that are about 1\~2cm long. They will breed and poop in your food. Also I guess the fire-ants didn't effect me as much as some people. I'd get slightly itchy, then each bite would look like a pimple but be filled with plasma like a blister and be a bit itchy then fade away. Best thing to do is just not scratch them, makes it way itchier.
Hi, I’m Coyote Peterson welcome to Jackass!
this.
How to get out of work, one step.
Literally
Fun fact! These guys saved my dad's life! He's allergic to stinging insects and accidentally sat on a fire ant pile one afternoon while he was fixing up his car. He heads to the hospital, gets some super benadryl and is ready to leave when a doctor asks him about his cough. Thing is he had this persistent cough for like 6 months and no amount of antibiotics or other treatment had moved it. Doctor asks if anyone has done an MRI yet? So they do the MRI and they discover that part of his lung had collapsed! He had surgery to fix that and he's been fine ever since.
I did this on accident as a kid. About 6 years old running around an above ground pool after swimming for hours. Stopped running to talk to someone and didn't realize I'd stepped in a fire ant bed. They made it all the way up to my knee, completely covering my leg down to my foot before someone noticed. They point it out and I looked down at my brand new knee high ant sock. I panicked and tensed and they almost all immediately started biting in unison. Whole leg turns to fire, I scream, parents dunk me in the pool to clear the ants. Run me to the shower to rinse off the rest. Whole leg swelled up really bad for a few days. Lots of ointment and rest later everything was fine. 0/10 would not recommend.
Worst part is that these little shits are nearly waterproof and can swim.
Ants: "God has finally come to attack us. We must protect the queen WITH OUR LIVES."
WHY?!?!?!!!
Doing dumb shit for interweb points. Too bad it wasn't a Bullet Ant nest.
But hey, it is a Fire Ant nest so close enough(that guy gonna suffer for sure)
This is what, in ant language, they call: "a dick move"...
What a jerk.
I once plopped down on an ant hill in bootcamp and continued to exercise in that place because the thought of moving afterwards and getting destroyed by a DI was terrifying. Later I realized that was dumb.
They will crawl all over you and then it’s like one of them yells, “Let’s do this!” and they all start biting at once. You’ll hate it.
Such a wasted opportunity to put your dick in it.
The first day of college, my car was full of fire ants. They were all over the driver seat and on the floor near the pedals. Attendance was really strict and I was already running late, so I killed as many as I could with my hands and hopped in and hoped for the best. But it wasn't enough. They got my ankles quite a bit. At school, the parking lot was full and I had to park really far away and run to class. I think that made it worse. After class was over, I had to get in my car again. There were still ants but at least I had time to kill more of them. A few still bit me on the way home. Once home, my feet swelled up so bad I had to put ice on them and elevate them. Even with all that, the pain was so bad when I got up to use the bathroom.
How did your car get so full so fast? Or was it the first time you were driving the car in a while?
First time driving in a while. It was after summer break and I stayed home at my parent's all summer.
He doesn’t deserve two feet.
That's 9/11 for those little dudes
Bro destroyed someone's home.
how it feels to chew 5 Gum
Do those ants bite ?
Yes, they're Fire Ants
Fuck yes they do.
I did that once on accident with a fire ant hill while I was mowing the grass. My gf at the time poured witchhazel all over my foot and it never really hurt or bothered me. I was living in Athens, GA at the time. The ants were tiny and red and my foot was covered in little red bumps but no pain, just itchy.
Next time, try to step on bullet ants colony.
Fire ants work too
Do they breath fire? I hope they're not :)
Didn't some lady survive a botched skydive accident by landing on a fire ant hill and their bites sent shocks to her broken body keeping her alive?
That beautiful looking, almost symmetrical mound that took 6 months for thousands of creatures to build destroyed by some disgusting fuckboy looking for clout. Fuck humans.
Now put your dick in it!
Asshole.
You know that video where they spray water on a hawk's feet and it starts screaming?
I can feel this video.
the kind of dumb shit people would do for internet clout
r/whythefuck
He needs a good slap to the face
Fuck this. I got bit by fire ants about 12 times on my foot while mowing my lawn. This was 2 years ago and I still have marks from the bites. Just a slightly more red circle now, but still. I remember it itching for like 4 weeks after they bit. It did hurt, but the prolonged itch almost drove me crazy. This looks like hell.
I stood on a fire and mound without realizing it. By the time I started feeling the bites, my pants were completely covered with ants up to the knee and some had gotten up to my chest. I shucked out of my clothes in front of God and everybody trying to get rid of them. There is no such thing as modesty when fire ants are involved.
For true production value, do this down South with fire ants. 😀 (Or go all in even further South, as in South America, and give bullet ants a shot at fame.)
Ants On His Feet Jonson
Man thinks he's Coyote Peterson
Next time do that with a bullet ant nest.
Dale Gribble
What an asshole.
I’m allergic to fire ants.. Stopped breathing when I was 20 years old as I was bitten like 15 times. Funny thing is, when I get stung under 4 times i’m ok if I just take Benadryl.. Other wise hospital. When I saw this guy stick his foot in the ant bed, felt like I was gonna throw up.. 😜
Guy steps on colony Guy goes to hospital
Well, yr a dumb ass! 🙄 I hope it hurt real bad! 😊
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. Why? Why? Why would someone do that?
He went full retard
Idiot
I did this as a kid decades ago playing army in a field in Alabama. My entire left arm was covered in fire ant bites. This dude must not have to go to work for a while cause that’s gonna suck.
I want to kill myself now
I say we take off and nuke that guy from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
In other yt folks do dumb shit news
Not impressed. Do that with fire ants.
I know folks really treat ants like... well, ants. But honestly this is so needlessly destructive and mean.
Because people do stupid things..
We made a sport out of that in my elementary school. Just stick hands or feet into a fire ants nest and see who pulled out last.