After learning of the danger that fire ants pose, some people are getting cheap thrills from squashing any ants unlucky enough to cross their paths. NTU Department of Entomology professor Wu Wen-jer points out that Taiwan has almost 300 species of ants, the vast majority of which are harmless.
紅火蟻的危害經報導後，很多民眾一看到螞蟻就有欲除之而後快的心理，但台大昆蟲學系教授吳文哲指出，台灣原本就有近三百種的螞蟻，絕大多數是無害蟻類。