Green Tree Ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) building their nest

Oh dear, I hope they didn't sting you too much.

Thankfully, I didn't get too many bites but my legs have big red blobs now. They don't just bite you once unfortunately!

Yikes! That’s horrible! The ants here bite, also, but your ants sounds much worse than here. The ants here don’t cause red blobs. The ants here give more of a quick sting.

These are very aggressive ants and their bite is quite painful. We learn to avoid them whenever possible, but there's just so many of them around, that it's impossible to avoid contact with them all the time.

I hope the blobs will go down. We have ants here too, black ones and red ones. The red ones can bite.

Thanks Hywel. The blobs will last a couple of days sadly as I always have a bit of a reaction to the bites. Ice pack tonight helped a great deal.

Oooh…ouch ya. This is why I don’t travel much.

Interesting info and photo. Seems like they have a very strong "venom" (form your description).

It's not really a venom Klahanie.

They bit by grabbing your skin with their six legs and then bites a hole with their jaws.

After they bite you, and it's usually a pretty fierce bite, they pull their tail underneath themselves and squirt formic acid from their abdomen into the bite site just to more misery to the pain!

They will hang on chewing on your skin to mix in the acid!

You can see the bite hole afterwards and the area around it is usually red for a while.

Fancy a visit to north Queensland sometime soon! 🤣🤣🤣

Bernie, methinks I shall stay here in the UK, even though it's so bitterly cold!

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That sounds awful B.B! I would never want to go outside!

Ha, Rose. Some days I feel the same!