When I was a young child, I had cowboy boots on, and stepped on a fire ant mound. If you aren't familiar with fire ants, and their mounds, the dirt making the mound is excavated from right under the mound, creating a very porous ball, full of ants. If you step on a mound, your foot sinks to the point of however deep they have excavated. The boot on a young child isn't too high, such that stepping on one of those mounds results in the rim of the boots being below the depth of the excavation, causing a large amount of dirt and ants to flood into the boots. I don't remember how many bites I got, just the boots filling in :) (side note: they don't all immediately bite; they latch on, and then some signal is sent, and they all bite at the same time!)
And during floods, an entire fire ant colony will form a floating mass that you definitely don't want to encounter if you are in the water or in a boat!
When I was a young child, I had cowboy boots on, and stepped on a fire ant mound. If you aren't familiar with fire ants, and their mounds, the dirt making the mound is excavated from right under the mound, creating a very porous ball, full of ants. If you step on a mound, your foot sinks to the point of however deep they have excavated. The boot on a young child isn't too high, such that stepping on one of those mounds results in the rim of the boots being below the depth of the excavation, causing a large amount of dirt and ants to flood into the boots. I don't remember how many bites I got, just the boots filling in :) (side note: they don't all immediately bite; they latch on, and then some signal is sent, and they all bite at the same time!)
I ran over one with a lawnmower. It sucked
And during floods, an entire fire ant colony will form a floating mass that you definitely don't want to encounter if you are in the water or in a boat!