Fire Ant

Ranking The Kingdom

Episode Six Time! In honor or making it three episodes past the third episode Dylan has decided to review an insect! Does that even count as an animal??

You'll discover why Fire Ants are such a pest, how much they (might) weigh if you got all of them together, and whether or not they would be able to take you on in a fight. No spoilers here, you'll have to listen to find out yourself. All of that and the reveal of community surveys so you can rank the Fire Ant and more yourselves! It's the sixth-iest episode you've ever seen!

Pictures:

https://www.ars.usda.gov/southeast-area/gainesville-fl/center-for-medical-agricultural-and-veterinary-entomology/imported-fire-ant-and-household-insects-research/docs/potential-global-range-expansion-of-the-invasive-fire-ant/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-QHON4UNzY

http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/016/211/original/raft-with-stick-sized.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=inside%7C660:*

https://www.engadget.com/2015/11/02/fire-ants-can-act-as-an-organic-super-material-by-playing-dead/

Sources:

Thanks to Silent Partner for our intro/transition/outro music "Cloud Patterns"

https://www.nps.gov/fosm/learn/nature/fire-ants.htm

https://www.bartlett.com/resources/Fire-Ant-Facts.pdf

https://www.ars.usda.gov/arsuserfiles/60360510/publications/Korzukhin_et_al-2001(M-3616).pdf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/what-happens-to-an-ant-th_b_2725947.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ZysgGAABw (Fire Ant Raft)

https://askentomologists.com/2015/07/01/is-there-any-truth-to-the-rumor-that-ants-eat-cows-people-and-crops/

http://fireant.tamu.edu/learn/biology/

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html

http://doyourownpestcontrol.com/pest_control/questions_and_answers/top_10_things_you_should_know_about_fire_ants.html

http://www.orkin.com/ants/fire-ant/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ant

http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/fireant/faq%20answers.html

Thanks to the following artists for the free music:

I Am Running with Temporary Success from a Monstrous Vacuum by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/honor/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Lightless Dawn by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Candlepower by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Infinite Perspective by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Artist: http://incompetech.com/

I Am Running Down the Long Hallway of Viewmont Elementary by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

We Always Thought the Future Would Be Kind of Fun by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/