Although ants do not generally attack people without provocation, if an ant colony is disturbed by, for example, a farmer harvesting crops or people accidentally coming into contact with one, large numbers of ants may attack the intruder.
雖然螞蟻通常都不會主動攻擊人類，但是農夫在收穫作物或人們誤觸蟻巢時，蟻群受到干擾，大量紅火蟻就會蜂擁而出，攻擊入侵者。