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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>It depends on the species of ant. Some small black ants are too small to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>bite or sting humans. Like the sugar ants that are common in homes. But<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>don't try interfering with fire ants! BillK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Thanks BillK. This particular species has a bite, but not a particularly sincere one, nothing like a fire ant, which has both a bite and a bad sting. I don’t think these guys have a sting. I may be wrong, but my previous experimentation with them got me a few half-hearted bites and no stings, or if they have stings, their venom is incompetent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Fire ants will participate in wars. My notion is to see if this can be replicated with fire ants. I am from the south, so I know fire ants, and I do this experiment with some trepidation. Those guys are appropriately named: their stings burn like fire. I might try to find a fire-ant war and reproduce the experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>