Are big ants poisonous?

In summer, you can see ants almost everywhere. There are a lot of ants, and they are small animals that live in groups. Because they are small, many people don't take ants seriously. But when we sit on the ground, some people will be bitten by ants. After being bitten by ants, if you are allergic to formic acid, some red bumps will appear on your skin. So are big ants poisonous?

It is poisonous.

There will be slight burning pain and itching at or around the ant bite, and a small lump will appear, which will grow larger, harder, and redder. But after a period of time, this package will be automatically eliminated.

It mainly causes irritation symptoms of skin and mucous membranes. Contact may cause conjunctivitis, eyelid edema, rhinitis, bronchitis, and in severe cases, acute chemical pneumonia.

Ant control:

1. Ants can be controlled by first soaking them in boiling water, then putting laundry detergent into the ditch to block them.

2. Ants often hang out in kitchens where there are oily foods. This characteristic can be used to eliminate them.

3. Use watering to flood the ant nest, which is more suitable for ants that nest in flower pots.

All ants are poisonous - formic acid.

Health hazards: Mainly cause irritation symptoms to the skin and mucous membranes. Contact may cause conjunctivitis, eyelid edema, rhinitis, bronchitis, and in severe cases, acute chemical pneumonia. Oral ingestion of concentrated formic acid can corrode the oral and digestive tract mucosa, causing vomiting, diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, and even death due to acute renal failure or respiratory failure. Skin contact may cause inflammation and ulcers. Occasionally allergic reactions may occur.

However, under normal circumstances, the formic acid from a few ants does not cause much harm to humans. Defense method: Ants are sensitive to temperature and are mostly active in hot weather. They like sweet foods, such as cakes, honey, maltose, brown sugar, eggs, fruit cores, meat skin, dead insects, etc. They can identify roads and move extremely quickly. If individual worker ants die, their bodies will be transported back to the ant nest. But they cannot tolerate hunger. Without food and water, half of them will die after four days and nights.

Experts suggest that household ants can be controlled by first soaking them in boiling water and then putting laundry detergent into the ditch to block them. You can also use sprays to kill cockroaches and mosquitoes. These medicines are effective in killing small red ants. However, the little red ant is a semi-social insect. Ordinary spray pesticides can only kill the worker ants in the colony that leave the nest. The queen ants and the king ants, which are breeding machines, are still reproducing crazily in the nest. A queen ant can give birth to 600 baby ants every second, so it is ideal to take collective action across the entire building to eliminate ants. The best way is to choose a poison bait that has good palatability and has no repellent effect on ants. After the worker ants carry the poison bait back, the ant king, queen ants and larvae in the nest will be poisoned and killed, causing the entire nest to be destroyed.