# Not all red ants are fireants, not all fireants are red!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 23, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-all-red-ants-are-fireants-not-all-fireants-are-red/457497 "2008-07-23T16:35:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-all-red-ants-are-fireants-not-all-fireants-are-red/457497/21 "2008-07-26T05:46:37Z")

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Back in '99 my wife, my daughter, and my youngest son and I took the “Route 66” vacation. In the Texas panhandle a bunch of them red mother fuckers got into my shoe and bit me! The girls were wearing open toe sandals, son has shoes untied and open, but I’m the poor sap that gets zapped! Made my big toe swell up and turn blackish. Not only are those fuckers evil, they’re selectively evil! FUCKERS!!!

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