Black imported fire ant
The black imported fire ant is a species of ant that is often called BIFA for short. It is native to South America but has spread to North America, where it has been found in several southern and south-eastern US states. Its sting can cause a red, swollen reaction, so it is useful to know it when you see one.1

Co renconuscher el
- Black in colour, as its name says.1
- Its sting leaves a sterile pustule (a small blister with no germs in it), surrounded by a red swelling.1
Savens confundì cun: It was once thought to be a colour variety of the red imported fire ant (RIFA). It is now known to be a separate species with a different range and different living habits.1
Forza dal tissi
Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.
Tge fa ses tissi?
Stings cause a sterile pustule surrounded by a raised, reddened swelling (wheal), with redness spreading beyond it (flare). The venom of this species may cause a more pronounced wheal and flare than the red imported fire ant.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.How strong the reaction is depends on how many allergic (IgE) antibodies a person has already formed. People who have already built up these antibodies may react more strongly.1
Sch'el piztga
- Lava e sfradenta las piztgadas.
- Sche la persuna ha difficultads da respirar, unfladiras da la fatscha u da la gula, u sch'ella sa senta sco da svanir, è quai ina urgenza allergica: clama tes numer d'urgenza.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
uschè pitschen ch'el po seser sin tia unglaQuant grond è Black imported fire ant cumpareglià cun TAI?
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Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Black imported fire ants appear to be more tolerant of cold than the red imported fire ant, and they are less dominant.1
Its body contains more water than the red imported fire ant, which may be linked to the different regions where the two species live.1
For a long time it was thought to be either a subspecies or a colour variation of the red imported fire ant, but it is now recognised as its own species.1
Destructur da mits
Mit: It is just a black colour form of the red imported fire ant.
Vardad: It is now recognised as a separate species, with a different range and living habits.1
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Black imported fire ant (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Solenopsis richteri (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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Piztgadas