Anyone dealt with ants that bite and don't let go?

Yesterday a bunch of folks planned to go on a canoe trip but the river was to high, so we couldn't get on. So we decided to make a homemade "slip n slide". A 10' X 100' sheet of plastic soaked with dishwashing soap and water. Yeah, it was a good time!!!

So I slide off the plastic into a ant hill. I couldn't slap the damn things off. Spraying them with high pressure water didn't work either. Honestly, I had to pull each one off.

I have about 50 bites all over my legs now. Its killing me not to scratch.

Anybody ever dealt with these before? It was my first encounter. In the past, they always just brush off.

What color?

I would guess dark brown or black. They were smaller than what I would call a normal ant

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Racist!

I'm telling rick.

JonR

^ Well have you ever been bitten by a white ant?

my aunt removes her false teeth first so she doesn't accidently bite. at first it bothered me a bit now its sorta hot.

My aunt is white

"my aunt removes her false teeth first so she doesn’t accidently bite."

Can she hum "Yankee Doodle Dandy"? If so, can you hook me up?

yes, they are awful

we have them

and they hang on like little pit bull ants from hell

we bought the ant killer pellets....sprinkled them over any ant hills and again over the new ones that pop up....I sprinkled them anywhere I saw them or their evil red cousins

they are back and I will do the same this week as soon as I remember to take the death pellets out of the trunk LOL

^LOL!

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and I forgot to say the pellets worked well as long as I did a routine check of the yard (1/4 acre) and put them where the kids need to be able to walk safely

we have regular irrigation and one day my mom helped out and went out to open the valve and a bunch the biatches run up her pant leg and arm

I killed them and the little red dog cousins too

bwahahahahahhahha

okay I'm done

but they hurt!

has it started raining yet?

sometimes the gods misunderstand the frantic jumping and swinging of arms to dislodge said ants as the rain dance.

Those poor ants. Why would anybody want to hurt those little ants?

You bunch of KILLERS!

^****.....Why don't you go join the "Save the Bobcat" group!!

LMAO!

Well, I got introduced to bullet ants in Costa Rica. Thankfully, not by being bitten. That is reported to be quite painful, however. I suspect that you'd be in tremendous pain if you had 50 bullet ant stings. It's supposed to be one of the worst in the world (pretty sure I didn't bring any back home either).

http://www.asktheexterminator.com/ants/Bullet_Ant.shtml 

Here is video of some genius volunteering to get stung

This is painful to watch...especially towards the end.

If you got bit by 50 ants, you might want to take a couple of benadryl . . .

send me the nest--it would make good torture

There's also Benadryl lotion, in addition to the pill. The combo is very effective for relief.

Two days later and the bites arent so bad now. Its funny, the "Fire Ant" bites itch much worse.

While the "Dark" Ants hurt much worse during the bite, they don't have much residual effect.

I'm thinking that if I had to choose between the two, I would rather be bitten by the small dark ones. The itching is driving me nuts! I woke up several times last night scratching.

FYI....

Don't put insect bite lotion on open skin.

I scratched one spot so much, I opened the skin.

It burns worse than alcohol on an open wound!!!!