Believe it or not, viewers have submitted videos of piles of red ants on what appears to be a floating raft made of insects.

Fire ants bite and sting! They also use their own young to build a terrifying raft during floods. Kidnapper ants steal other ants’ babies. Honeypot ants turn their sisters into living jugs of nectar.

Leaf-cutter ants easily gnaw through tough tropical leaves. And scorpions use their tails to inject venom into prey several times larger than themselves.

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Fire ants, also called red ants, are originally from South America but have spread as far north as southern Virginia and Tennessee. Wherever they go, they build large mounds in open areas.

Whereas other ants bite and spray acid onto the open wound, fire ants sting from their abdomen and inject solenopsin, a toxic alkaloid venom. They got their name from the burning sensation people feel ...

According to information released by the State of Tennessee, Rutherford County has remained on the "Imported Fire Ant Quarantined Counties" list for multiple years.