If you live in a rural or suburban area in the Southern states, you’ve likely seen a fire ant hill a few times in your life.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it ...

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The LSU Ag Center said these fire ants make many tunnels underground. It can take months for the mound to become visible. Fire ants predominantly only come out in the warmer spring and summer ...

and other materials that are pushed up as the ants tunnel around underneath the surface. The hill is not just a collection of the leftover soil. Instead, it serves multiple purposes: The mound is ...