Stood on an ant hill..

This morning while I was at school I was sitting on a bench outside and I didn't realize my feet were on an ant hill and they swarmed my feet and stung me 3 times. One of the stings are swollen, and all of them are itchy. Ants can really have painful stings!!

Yep, I got 8 three weeks ago and the bites/stings are still there. I don't know anything about ants so I don't know if it is a bite or a sting but either way it is no good.

This one time (at band camp, anyone, anyone?), I was herping (duh) and flipping logs. I flipped a log, which happened to be situated above an ant pile. I got bit about 10 times on my thumb, and dealt with it like a man..after crying about it.

On the way back, I flipped the same log, got bitten by the same ants, but this time on different fingers.

:banana:

Later, Matt

I like Minnesota. Great fishing, great outdoors, NO FIRE ANTS!!

Gawd after spending 3/4 of my life in texas and louisiana, I have a healthy hatred for those things.

My first time standing in an anthill was halloween when I was maybe 6 years old, in the dark. I got stung upwards of 20 times.

Yeah Minnesota sounds nice.

Great fishing, great outdoors... hmm... sounds perfect.

Wait.

WHAT ABOUT THE HERPING?!!

The fire ants are worth it.

Later, Matt

We have some mean ants in Arizona.

I hopped a fence and landed barefoot onto an anthill.

This photo is NOT photo shopped.

NWS for gross hairy man-foot.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...t/photo2-1.jpg

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Originally Posted by DutchHerp

WHAT ABOUT THE HERPING?!!

The fire ants are worth it.

Later, Matt

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I know :( I just have to keep my herping to pets I guess, which is enough of a reptile fix to keep me sane.

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Originally Posted by Soterios

We have some mean ants in Arizona.

I hopped a fence and landed barefoot onto an anthill.

This photo is NOT photo shopped.

NWS for gross hairy man-foot.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...t/photo2-1.jpg

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The ants here will bite you whenever they feel like it. When I was little.. this one huge ant tried making an ant hill out of my skin... and it HURT.

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

I know :( I just have to keep my herping to pets I guess, which is enough of a reptile fix to keep me sane.

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Just get down here man, take a herping trip!

Later, Matt

Please those ants have nothing on the COW ants(what I call them).

when we were moving into our house me and my cousin were taking down my dogs kennels to get ready to move then and we were washing them off and cleaning them and everything and I stepped in an ant hill and didnt relize they were on me until they were past my knee and the tore me up. I have to put ant killer out about every two weeks or they will take over my yard

Ouch, that looks painful. I grew up as an army brat, so while we lived in texas I was privileged enough to get a ton of fire ant bites. My brother gets the prize though. He fell diaper first into a fire ant hill.
P.S. I am also located in MN, I love the fact that there aren't so many bugs up here lol.

I met someone a while back who had just moved here from Michigan I think... He was freaking out cuz he'd never seen foot high anthills before haha