Green ants are a real pest its true worst case was in Halifax small settlement on the coast West of Ingham, cane country. We were doing aerial inspections and d/w removals in 8 heritage mangoes down the main street..Even before you had tied onto your lines the colour had changed from orange to olive green as literally thousands of ants come marching down the rope...(It gets better) Using a VT and F/L up the little buggers were base jumping onto you before you even got 1m off the ground.
First day I got so badly bitten on the neck ears and back I couldn't put my hivis shirt on without suffering (wish I'd had photos taken of the lumps and whelts you would not believe)
But no way around it so we had to keep getting back up into those giant ant houses for the next three days
Highlight B&B in the pub paid for by the boss...what a guy
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