Here’s a fact that might ruin your day —fire ants can float.
And not just one of them. The whole colony.
KSAT viewer Jon Lindley shared a video with KSAT showing a huge swarm of the red devils floating on the water in Lake Dunlap. The lake wasnearly four years after a partial dam failure. Areas that were dry for the last four years are now underwater, and that’s created floating mounds of fire ants. “I was trying to get the video without getting my kayak too close so they wouldn’t crawl on my kayak and attack,” Lindley said.
Lindley said he had to navigate carefully on the lake because there were several large rafts of fire ants. “Fire ants are known to do that, and one of the ways they spread. Also why rivers and other bodies of water don’t stop their spread,” said Texas A&M AgriLife Entomologist Molly Keck. “The water may have risen due to rain and, as soon as it goes down, they’ll get back to the soil. Or they will eventually float their way to land and crawl on.”
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