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        "description": "<p>Red fire ants first arrived in the U.S. in the 1930s, and they can spread like wildfire and even eliminate an animals species in a given area.</p>", 
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        "title": "Fire Ants Kill", 
        "url": "http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/bugs-animals/ants-and-termites/fire-ants-predation/", 
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        "transcript": "<p class=\"MsoNormal\">FIRE ANTS ARE ONE OF NATURE\u2019S MOST FEARSOME CLEANING FORCES.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">A RED IMPORTED FIRE ANT ARMY CAN TAKE DOWN PREY MUCH LARGER THAN ITSELF, AND STRIP A CARCASS CLEAN OVERNIGHT.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">DOZENS, EVEN HUNDREDS, OF FIRE ANTS STING IN UNISON\u2014AND THIS IS WHAT HUMANS HAVE COME TO FEAR.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">THE ANT BITES DOWN, AND THEN STINGS, INJECTING A TOXIC VENOM THAT BURNS LIKE, WELL, FIRE.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">RED IMPORTED FIRE ANTS WERE INTRODUCED TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1930S, PROBABLY STOWING AWAY IN BALLAST ON A BRAZILIAN CARGO SHIP.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">NOW THEY\u2019VE SPREAD ACROSS SEVERAL SOUTHERN STATES.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">THE ANTS BUILD LARGE NESTS IN THE SOIL, AND ONCE ESTABLISHED, ARE KNOWN TO DEVASTATE THE ECOSYSTEM AROUND THEM.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">THEY\u2019VE BEEN KNOWN TO RADICALLY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ANIMAL SPECIES IN A GIVEN AREA\u2026 SOMETIMES ELIMINATING THEM ENTIRELY\u2014WITH THE POWER OF THE SWARM.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">ATTACK ON A BEETLE NOT GOING WELL? CALL IN REINFORCEMENTS.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">FIRE ANTS CAN AGGRESSIVELY TAKE OVER AN AREA AND SPREAD\u2026 LIKE WILDFIRE.</p>", 
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