They actually swarm first without biting and then once they get a critical mass covered they chemically send a command to all bite at once.
I’m not kidding.
I’m not kidding.
I had them in an extremely large mound by another house I lived in as an adult. I tossed a handle of 151 into it and lit it on fire. Payback.
No, they are just insects defending their hive.
Evil incarnate would cause torment for no reason?
Does that count for causing torment for no reason?
That is one of the many reasons why it is unusual to sit directly on the ground in Florida without something like a picnic blanket.
They might be a nuisance. Indeed, they might be a invasive and dangerous nuisance which we need to be exterminated, but that does not make them evil, and neither does it require glee to carry out that task. They are ants is all. They have, in evolutionary terms, found and developed a niche for themselves just as we have.
Probably instead what happens is while crawling around it detects the surface it crawled on is actually the body of a large living entity, so going into defense mode is one possible response. Not sure if in this case it's because it may make you move to get free if stuck under you, or chase away possible threats to nest, or because possible food source?
Because (as I was told) once they are all on and in position one of them blows a whistle to signal "start stinging".