Because your body reacts to the poison. That's your white cells rallying round to fight off the attacker.
While honeypot ants eat, their abdomen can reach the size of a small grape. The ant itself is just the size of common red ants. Sometimes they swell up so much that they are rendered inable to move.
They can live up to 2 to 5 yrs. most live up to 4 yrs
They use their butts.
You can place a container of honey and a container of butter equal distances away from an ant pile. The container with the most ants will help you determine whether they are more attracted to honey or butter.
To get rid of sugar ants, you can use bait stations with sugar-based baits that contain a slow-acting poison. Place the bait stations along the ant trails where they are active. Ensure to keep the area clean and free of food crumbs to help prevent reinfestation.
obviously it is. my freind let one off in his car to kill some ants and it made his face break out and swell up. not only that also his testicals swelled to the size of grapefruit.
ants grow up to be 1cm
Put malto meal in the path of the ants or on the ant pile. Once the worker ants get the malto meal they will take it to there queen. The queen eats the malto meal, and it makes her swell up and she dies.
it is butts
Because they absorb the water they're in - which makes them swell up.
because they can
I am aboriginal, we eat - kangaroo, emu, goanna, crocodile, fish, witchetty grubs, honey ants, etc... that's what they eat up bush.