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Large fire ant mounds
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Diagram of a fire ant mound
One of the identifying characteristics of a fire ant colony is its earthen nest or mound. The mound is a conical (cone-shaped) dome of excavated (dug up) soil. The mound begins as a small cell, like a small room, a few inches deep in the ground, where the newly fertilized queen seals in herself to [...]
