{"id":431,"date":"2010-08-29T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2010-08-31T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T19:22:44","slug":"harvester-ants-can-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Harvester Ants Can Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvester-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Harvester Ant\" title=\"Harvester Ant\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvester-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvester-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvester.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harvester Ant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many of us see the big crater-looking nest that the Harvester ant creates in our yards. When you get near it they come out in droves and try to climb up your legs. What a lot of people don&#8217;t know is that they can actually sting like a Wasp! On their abdomen just like a bee or wasp they have a stinger and they are not afraid to use it. Please see the picture of the stinger &#8211; I know its a little blurry but gives you an up-close look at the business end of this ant. These colonies can actually live up to 20 years and have around 10,000 ants in the colony &#8211; that&#8217;s a lot of stings!<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-434\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvest-ant-stinger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvest-ant-stinger-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Harvester Ant Stinger\" title=\"Harvester Ant Stinger\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvest-ant-stinger-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/azbugco.com\/wp-content\/uploads-AZBugCo\/2010\/08\/Harvest-ant-stinger.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harvester Ant Stinger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a lot of people don&#8217;t know is that Harverster Ants can actually sting like a Wasp! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17,55],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","tag-ants","tag-harvester-ants","wpcat-10-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azbugco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}