01-05-2019, 10:38 AM
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Originally posted by bananahead
lucky we DONT HAVE those 'Red Imported Fire Ants' in Hawaii....
we have ELECTRIC ANTS!!!, a completely different species... aloha
please dont use the word Fire Ants in Hawaii, ours are not Fire Ants, not related at all...
they are known as ELECTRIC ANTS to the entire world, except in Hawaii they are called LFA (little Fire Ants) for some boneheaded reason
not in Hawaii ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ant
in Hawaii ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_ant
Give it up. Little Fire Ant directs to Electric ant on wikipedia. Nobody calls them electric ants outside of Australia.
"Electric ant
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Little fire ant)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Wasmannia
Species: W. auropunctata
Binomial name
Wasmannia auropunctata
(Roger, 1863) [1]
The electric ant (Wasmannia auropunctata), also known as the little fire ant"
In fact, the entire article only refers to the term "electric ant" in the first paragraph and once in the footnotes. After that, it calls them "little fire ant" 31 times. Electric ant, zero.