re: Got stung by a red velvet ant today

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I guess the problem is you never get just 1 fire ant bite?

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No, those bastards are coordinated. They prey on you when you're preoccupied, like when chopping weeds in the garden. You're hard at work, and you didn't see the bed in the red clay dirt....
it just blended right in. You don't even really feel them crawling on your leg. 10, 20.....maybe more. They wait.....timing their attack. The ranking officer counts down from three, then......you feel it, you retreat from the garden, swatting.....kicking, cussing. You've been ambushed.



This is an entirely hypothetical situation, of course.