{"id":45395,"date":"2023-06-16T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45395"},"modified":"2023-06-20T18:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:43:28","slug":"fire-ants-they-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45395","title":{"rendered":"Fire ants &#8211; they bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DateStamper_0539-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45396 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DateStamper_0539-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Oh my goodness, the fragile and delicate little ants can bite!<\/p>\n<p>My arm was resting on the edge of the jacuzzi on Tuesday and suddenly felt a pitch. I looked over and saw a tiny fire ant running away. At first I didn&#8217;t think of it much but soon it became a small itchy lump. On Friday, a tiny white formed on the lump where it&#8217;s still itchy.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, learnt one more thing!<\/p>\n<p>An update: 6.20 a week later, still itchy and the lump is still there.<\/p>\n<p>Some advices from friends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>buy skin so soft insect repellent..its oily but works!<\/li>\n<li>Red ant bites HURT for awhile!<\/li>\n<li>I put fresh lemon on mine, and it helped a little<\/li>\n<li>The small black ants are vicious. I use campho phenique on the bites.<\/li>\n<li>Always good idea to apply insect repellent. If bitten Benadryl and hydrocortisone cream. Cold packs help too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my goodness, the fragile and delicate little ants can bite! My arm was resting on the edge of the jacuzzi on Tuesday and suddenly felt a pitch. I looked over and saw a tiny fire ant running away. At first I didn&#8217;t think of it much but soon it became a small itchy lump. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}