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Fire ants, sometimes referred to as simply red ants, are stinging ants of
which there are over 280 species worldwide.
Appearance The bodies of fire ants, like all insects' bodies, are broken
up into three sections: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen, with three
pairs of legs and a pair of antenna. Fire ants can be distinguished from
other ants by their copper brown head and body with a darker abdomen. The
worker ants are blackish to reddish, and their size varies from 2 mm to 6
mm (0.12 in to 0.24 in). These different sizes of the ants can all exist in
the same nest. In Australia, detection and identification in order to
deliver eradication of the tramp ant pest the red imported fire ant (S.
invicta) is complicated in Queensland by its resemblance to another
long-standing invasive species, the "coastal brown" (Pheidole megacephala).
Behavior A typical fire ant colony produces la
