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class="Byline-bylineGroup--2XIy_"><p class="">By<!-- --> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/by/christine-hauser" class="Byline-bylineAuthor--d8i20 elementStyles-authors--voZdU">Christine Hauser</a></p></div></div><time class="Timestamp-timestamp--3FJff elementStyles-timestamp--26VGL styles-timestamp--KJFCK" dateTime="2017-08-30" itemProp="datePublished" content="2017 - 08 - 30">Aug. 30, 2017</time></div></header><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">The streets in Texas flooded by Hurricane Harvey brought upheaval to nature’s earthbound creatures, throwing them out of their natural habitats into a world overwhelmed with water.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">People <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/us/hurricane-harvey-texas.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">sloshed through chest-high waters</a> clutching children. Shadowy <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gators-take-up-residence-in-texas-womans-fenced-in-yard-during-harvey/" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">alligators floated in yards</a>. A man <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/heroes-texas-floods-harvey.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">caught a fish in his house</a>. Bats were <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/volunteers-save-thousands-of-bats-from-drowning-in-houston-floods/" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">pried from bridges</a>. Livestock paddled through streets where they were once fleet of foot.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">But certainly among the creepiest images to emerge were the rust-colored mounds formed by colonies of fire ants, the nightmarish spawn of the deadly storm that first made landfall last week and soaked South Texas with record-setting rains.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Soon after the waters rose, the insects’ enterprise and instinct for communal self-preservation kicked in. They rose up from their underground tunnel systems and literally stuck together to survive, linking their claws and clinging to one another in massive rafts and balls that floated and spun in the current.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">As the ants, which have a coating on their armorlike bodies that repels water, drifted in teeming clumps, their presence formed a “creepy” subtext to the tales of woe and rescue in Houston’s flood-drowned streets, creating a “river full of nightmares,” <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Harvey-fire-ants-texas-river-photo-12159410.php" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">The Houston Chronicle wrote.</a></p><div class="elementStyles-tweet--3AESs elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards=""><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/901912379470077952">https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/901912379470077952</a></p></blockquote></div><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Mike Hixenbaugh, a medical writer for The Chronicle, recorded a video of one such fire ant cluster while working on a flood story on Monday in Cypress Creek. He said in an email that later that day he stepped on another group of fire ants that “tore my left ankle/foot up.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“Those bites itch for days,” he said.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Online, the video inspired stories about the ants in <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.wired.com/story/why-those-floating-fire-ant-colonies-in-texas-are-such-bad-news/" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">Wired</a>, The <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16221842/hurricane-harvey-houston-fire-ants" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">Verge</a> and elsewhere.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">On Twitter, people shared stories of run-ins with the tiny creatures.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“Had a golf ball size group wash up on my foot during flooding near Austin,” <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ericwestpheling/status/901960406276722688" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">one wrote</a>, adding that he “screamed” and “ran home to a fistful of Benadryl.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“I haven’t read the Bible but, from what I’ve heard, this seems like ‘the stuff of Revelations,’” <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/WearsFactyPants/status/901926931741892609" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">wrote another person</a> in reply to one of Mr. Hixenbaugh’s tweets.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Fire ants are native to South America and adapted to surviving in flood plains in the wetlands of Brazil. In the United States they are concentrated mostly in the southeastern region, with smaller populations in New Mexico, Arizona and California.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">If disturbed, they become aggressive and bite, attaching to humans with their jaws, and injecting a stinging venom that burns and develops into fluid-filled pustules. First aid,<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/insects/fireants.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3"> according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,</a> includes use of an epinephrine pen or antihistamines. Allergies to insect bites can be deadly.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Scientists have studied the ants for their unusual ability to band together. In July, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/NpiDADw5Omw" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">Vox made a video of the ants,</a> showing how they stuck so well that they could be ladled en masse for easy transference from surface to surface. When their cluster is poked with a finger, it bounces back.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">If subjected to longer periods of disturbance, the ant cluster acts like a fluid. When a coin is dropped into an aggregation of the insects, the group reforms slowly around the object. Scientists at Georgia Tech have been studying the physics and behavior of fire ant clusters, which have a consistency <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.news.gatech.edu/2015/10/26/ants-both-solid-and-liquid" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">they say can be wobbly like Jell-O or flow like ketchup.</a></p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">They do this by connecting with their legs — 100 ants means 600 legs — creating a springy network that repels liquid because of a coating on their bodies. “They weave into a waterproof fabric,” said David Hu, who is studying fire ants at Georgia Tech.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">They live in organized societies called colonies, which can have tens of thousands of members, reproducing and collecting food. They are led by a queen — the only member that reproduces, said Lawrence Gilbert, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/science/conversation-with-larry-gilbert-plotting-aerial-attack-marauding-fire-ants.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">the director of the Invasive Species laboratory</a> at University of Texas at Austin.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Fire ants are no stranger to the surface during tropical storms and hurricanes. If water seeps into their tunnels — some of which can stretch four feet deep — they try to escape with their larvae, pupae and food.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“Imagine yourself as an ant in a mine with vertical tunnels,” Dr. Gilbert said. “And now you are just picking up your babies and running uphill. They move up en masse to the top, just like people on roofs.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Those at the bottom of the pile eventually change places with those at the top, and the mass endlessly revolves around the colony’s offspring and queen. “They are probably moving around enough so they are not drowning,” he said.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">They can drift for days, until they find a log or a bank. If one colony bumps up against another, they fight for territory.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">They can be aggressive, and sneaky. 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