Fire ants have a terrifying way to survive flooding: they latch onto each other in a colony, forming a fire ant island.
Houston Chronicle reporter Mike Hixenbaugh pointed this discovery out while reporter on the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Fire ants are fairly water resistant on their own, but are unstoppable together. And according to Hixenbaugh, they use the bodies of dead fire ants as a raft to survive.
