These ants are approximately 1.5cm long and black. They can bite and sting like fury. It feels like a red-hot needle. The big problem is that they work together and usually walk in a column of three metres in length and have a couple of hundred in their army.
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Soldier or Army Ants -black
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These black soldier ants are not the driver ants which travel in lines of Billions protected by their soldiers alongside their columns. sting. They take days to pass and can only be stopped by spreading ashes and coals from a fire in their way.
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| Driver Ants reddish in colour |
One day a Missionary was riding his bicycle home the two hundred Kilometres from a Business meeting in Katanga. As he descended a long hill he was unaware that the deep sand had accumulated at the bottom and he fell off in the deep sand right into the middle of a Column of Army Ants. They hiss to warn their fellow soldiers and then go in for the kill.
This missionary was in the middle of them and they can really sting. He yelled and out popped his false teeth into sand as they got up his legs. He needed to get his trousers down in a hurry hoping their wasn't any African children in the bush nearby. What a sight!. He eventually got his trousers back up and his false teeth cleaned off. He picked up his bike and his precious briefcase of Business meeting minutes and sore and weary headed for home. He would be more wary next time at the bottom of a long hill.
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| Soldier ants can sting |
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