I park my moto under the shade of some mango trees next to the house. The other day, there were 100’s of big red ants all over it.  I knocked most of them off and went on my way. As I’m riding down the road, they are popping up all over, and I’d brush them off on the side of the road or at a stop.  I just assumed it was a fluke that they were there and didn’t think anything of it.

This morning, while it’s a relatively cool, I went out to cut the grass a little and cut some of the lower limbs of the trees we park under.  I found a dozen weaver ant nest in several of our trees.  Thousands of big red ants.

The ants will pull mango leaves together and form a nest inside the leaves.

The also have a pretty painful bite – I had a few ant bites after this. No lasting marks, but initial sting is very noticeable. Both the ants and the larvae are eaten in SE Asia.  I passed on that.

Aftermath, most of them were killed in the nest with some ant spray.