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Yes, That's a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas

Floods make them more venomous and more aggressive.
Source: Brant Kelly / Flickr

When there is flooding along the Gulf Coast, there are fire ants. The invasive ants congregate into living rafts, drifting through water until they reach solid ground again. It’s a time-honed survival strategy.

But when there is Hurricane Harvey-level flooding, there are not just small rafts but huge, dense mats of fire ants.

“Holy crap. I have , curator of entomology at University of Texas at Austin, in response to the image below.

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