By Anonymous - 27/12/2012 22:54 - Australia

Today, while trying to take my Christmas tree down, I learned that at some point during the last few weeks, it became home to a colony of green ants. I'm now covered in bites and terrified to go anywhere near it. FML
I agree, your life sucks 30 152
You deserved it 3 158

Same thing different taste

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Angelrose2004 17

That's what happens when you listen to your neighbor and spray your tree with sprite.

You know what that means.. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT ALLLL YEAR ROUND!!

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cuddlebunny3548 11
outsidehitter7 9

it hasnt even been new year's yet! why were you taking it down??

Green ants..... Never heard of 'em. At least they matched. Use gloves to bring it outside, quickly.

"Green ant" redirects here. For the Australian Green-head ant, see Green-head ant. Oecophylla Temporal range: 47–0 Ma PreЄЄOSDCPTJKPgN Eocene - Recent Weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) major worker (Vietnam). Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Formicidae Subfamily: Formicinae Tribe: Oecophyllini Genus: Oecophylla Smith, 1860 Species †Oecophylla atavina †Oecophylla bartoniana †Oecophylla brischkei †Oecophylla crassinoda †Oecophylla eckfeldiana †Oecophylla grandimandibula †Oecophylla leakeyi Oecophylla longinoda †Oecophylla longiceps †Oecophylla megarche †Oecophylla obesa †Oecophylla perdita †Oecophylla praeclara †Oecophylla sicula Oecophylla smaragdina †Oecophylla superba †Oecophylla xiejiaheensis Diversity 2 species Oecophylla range map. Oecophylla longinoda in blue, Oecophylla smaragdina in red.[1] Weaver ants or Green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants are obligately arboreal and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk.[2] Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and contain more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Oecophylla workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers.[3] [4] The major workers are approximately eight to ten millimeters in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. There is a division of labour associated with the size difference between workers. Major workers forage, defend, maintain and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests. Oecophylla weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters. These ants are highly territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders. Because of their aggressive behaviour, weaver ants are sometime used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests. Although Oecophylla weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid[5][6] directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort.

cheer21moose 13

That's what you get for being a tree murdering idiot and not going artificial.

Whoa, whoa, wait. GREEN ants? The hell do those do? I've never heard of them..