Army ants aren't really a threat. bullet ants are huge, and they also have pretty big colonies considering their size. No vertebrate in its right mind is going to mess with a bullet ant colony. You could probably like, dig and access them within several seconds if you had like a shovel or good digging claws. But you'd just be crazy too, because they sting so badly.
You have ants. We all have ants, but do we KNOW ants? Get ready for cult-leader queens, bullet ant stings, kitchen pest hacks, the dynamics of a billion-sister megacolony. Dr. Terry McGlynn sits down to have a BIG discussion about itty-bitty creatures in this encore because I was out of town seeing my family and just needed a week off. Learn about tropical ants, urban ants, how they walk on water, which ones are picky eaters, which ones make weird sounds, what ant movies are bunk, and some help-help takeaways. Also: sniffing your relatives before deciding to kill them. Ooooh, it’s a classic.
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