I couple of days ago I was clearing out the overgrown grass and Pica Pica that was growing about 4ft tall on the street that leads to our house. We are the only house on the road, so even though it isn’t our property, it won’t get cleared unless I do it. It’s not so bad now at 4ft, but by the time winter hits it will tower about 8ft tall and will harbor Pica Pica (that is what it was like last winter when we came down to check out the house and try to close the mortgage deal) which is no bueno.

It probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do, but I was clearing the weeds with a weed eater on steroids with flip flops and shorts on. While I was walking through the weeds, I must have kicked or ‘weed eated’ a red ant hill. I didn’t notice immediately but suddenly felt some intense pain on my right foot (a little pain or burning is normal walking through and cutting weeds here because there are so many itchy plants), i looked down and it looked like my right foot had a black sock on. Too bad it wasn’t a sock, my foot was covered from my toes all the way up to my shin in red ants and they were going to town on my skin. I reached down and wiped as many off as I could and then walked quickly down to the house and washed off my foot…but the damage was already done. I probably got bit by about 30 red ants, luckily by body didn’t really react aside from some pimple like bumps for a few days and now just red spots. Some people can get really sick if they get bit by too many ants at once.

Lesson learned. Wear pants and shoes when working in the jungle no matter how hot it is.

When Red Ants Attack – Puerto Rico Style