what are these orange ants

[pinkdolly]

so i was weeding my mums garden for her and kept uncoverng lots of nests with horrible looking orange ants in them. does anyone know what they are and how to gt rid of them. thanx, pink.

are they babies?

I think they are called red ants... boiling water does the trick!

Hurts like hell if they bite you

they bite, be careful, nasty burning sting (landed once in one and was bitten several times (large area on the bum!

Red ants, v. nasty bite

mil has a massive red ant problem in her garden, i dig the nest out so many times, they just come back. they're super ants. been bitten by them so many times, i just leave them alone now.

No orange ants are field ants and they do bite, but are not the same as red ants.

thankyou, i had a nasty feeling they were biting ants.

ah, how do you tell the ifference. are the red ones really red.

Red ants are more like dark brown/red as opposed to lurid orange.

field ant

red ant

oh they're the ants at mils house, not red ants then

Never heard of orange ants..you learn something new every day on here