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fire naked flame. fire ant Solenopsis invicta; bites can cause severe conjunctivitis and corneal ulcers. fire brand see brand. fire engine practice see fire engine practice. fire fish members of the fish family Scorpaenidae, or scorpion fish which cause intense skin irritation. fire injury see burn, bushfire injury. fire retardant chemicals used to proof timber or fabric against fire. Many of these agents are poisonous. The best known are polybrominated and polychlorinated biphenyls. fire ant Medical entomology A nonwinged hymenopteran arthropod which is omnivorous, attacking livestock, crops, electric insulation; the FA injects a venom, causing intense burning and pruritus, due to necrotoxin or solenamine; reactions
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| With warm temperatures and moist air, the usual suspects appear--mosquitos, fire ants, and wasps. Scientists have occasionally reported signs of what they began calling the greenbeard gene in fire ants and a few other species (SN: 8/8/,98, p. As a youngster in the South I remember all too well the fire ants in my grandmother's yard. |
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