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Fire Ants are a type of ant that are red and small and live in holes in the ground known as ant colonies, giving them the name of FIRE.

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Information about Fire Ants

- As of 1995, the correct name for the red imported fire ant was Solenopsis wagneri

- There are native and imported species.

- Both native and imported fire ants are small, dark orange/brown ants with workers of various sizes that quickly mobilize and sting en mass when their mound is disturbed .

- When fire ants die, workers remove the bodies and body parts from nests. Nest hygiene is a key to disease prevention in social insects such as bees and ants.

See the Wikipedia article fire ant for more information.