In 2005, Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! was released on DVD in Germany under the title Marabunta.[1] No announcement has been made on the possibility of an English language release, although it is still shown regularly during the Sci Fi Channel's weekend movie marathons under its alternative name Marabunta. It is also available on NowTV.[2]
Dr. Jim Conrad is visiting the small town of Burly Pines, Alaska to fish. While out with a friend, they discover a moose that has been stripped clean of meat. They presume hunters left it for scavengers, but then the hunters arrive and say they had shot it two hours earlier and had been tracking it since. A shopkeeper is found in the same condition in his home. The authorities think it may have been a predator, but Jim is unsure. During the autopsy, Jim finds something on the man's body. When he looks at it under a microscope, it is the jaws of a marabunta, a South American ant known for traveling in waves, killing everything in their path. After questioning Police Chief Jeff Croy and his men, Jim figures out that the ants must have arrived on a boat that had crashed a few years ago, leaving logs of South American wood behind. The ants had hibernated in the wood until recent seismic activity had made it warm enough to support them.
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Jim teams up with Croy and schoolteacher Laura to try to find a way to stop the ants. Jim and Karen go to the beach where the wood from the ship washed up to kill the queen. The ants attack Jim's friend, who is piloting the helicopter. While trying to fight them off, his actions cause the helicopter to lift off and crash into the mountain. Jim and Laura find themselves surrounded by the ants. They hold them off using a flame thrower and shotgun until they can reach a nearby canoe, which they take downstream until they reach a waterfall and go over it. Having survived the falls, they find an old cabin with a motorcycle. They get it started just as the ants reach them and ride it back to town. They convince Croy to evacuate the town. Croy has local Native American Gray Wolf handle the evacuation and tells his son Chad to go with them. When everyone is out of town, Gray Wolf is to blow up the only road out of town. Chad goes back to his father against his wishes and returns to help while Gray Wolf sets up the dynamite. At the school, Jim and Laura create a mixture that can kill the ants, but the ants attack the school. Chad gets trapped in a school bus while Jim and Laura are chased to the school's top floor. Croy arrives in his truck, and they escape with help from Jim's formula. They make their way out of town, but Gray Wolf is forced to blow the pass early when he sees the ants making their way along it.
After determining the ants' pattern, they decide to blow up the local dam and flood the entire town to kill the ants. Jim and Laura get some dynamite and head to the dam. They leave Chad in Croy's truck parked on top of the dam as a lookout while they dig holes in the earthen side of the dam at intervals and insert the dynamite with different length fuses. While they are working, a rescue helicopter, sent by Gray Wolf, arrives to carry them out of town. Chad gets in, and once they have lit the dynamite, Croy and Karen join him. Jim has trouble lighting his fuse, and an aftershock knocks him down, but he is finally able to get it lit. The pilot flies the helicopter down to where Jim is, and, with Croy's help, he gets aboard just as the dynamite explodes.
The dam is destroyed, and the water floods the entire valley, including the town. The pilot lands the helicopter on a nearby hill, and the group looks at the flooded valley, hoping the ants have drowned. Jim decides to stay for a while to study the area more. He warns the group that they cannot be sure all of the ants died and that any survivors would probably go back underground and into hibernation. As the movie ends, surviving ants, including the queen, are shown walking on some stones near the water's edge, where it is discovered the queen has wings, thus potentially repeating the cycle.
The movie did not fare well with critics. In the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a reviewer commented that the movie "continues a great, cheesy tradition of ant-menace movies."[3] The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film calls it a "standard SF-thriller."[4]Eric Fowler at the Indianapolis Morning Register was less kind, calling the film, "a blot on the history of sci-fi and an insult to ants everywhere."
Although commonly referred to as the cow killer ant or red velvet ant, this insect is actually a wasp. They get the "velvet" part of their name from the fuzziness of the females, which are wingless and often brightly colored, appearing like a red and black ant.
Female cow killer ants are also typically seen running somewhat erratically on the ground, especially on bare or sandy areas in the warm summer months. These pests will occasionally enter structures for insect prey. Male velvet ants are often found on flowers, although some species are nocturnal.
Female cow killer ants dig into the nesting chambers of ground-nesting bees and wasps and lay their eggs on the larvae inside. When the immature velvet ant is born, it eats its host and then spins its cocoon within the pupal case of its host.
Not only do red velvet ants sting, but female red velvet ant stings are very potent and have earned them the nickname "cow killer ant" because of the myth that the sting is so painful it could kill a cow. While the sting is painful, the venom is not very toxic. Like most stinging insects, velvet ants rarely sting unless provoked. Males do not sting.
Once the stinger is removed, clean the area with soap and water and apply ice. Benadryl and over the counter 1% hydrocortisone ointment can help calm the reaction. Consider taking a pain reliever as needed.
If you suspect a velvet ant infestation in your home, the best course of action is to contact a licensed pest control professional. They will conduct a thorough inspection to identify the full extent of the problem. Once the situation is properly identified, the appropriate control measures can be taken.
Velvet ants are in the Mutillidae family, which contain about 8,000 species throughout the world. But only 50 Mutillidae species can be found in Florida, as most prefer arid regions, such as the southwest United States.
If you see a velvet ant with wings, rest assured, it is a male. Although capable of flight, males are incapable of stinging, as they lack stingers. Females, who lack wings, need a suitable host to be able to lay their eggs, and they spend most of their time looking for one.
They rely mainly on mature larvae (such as pupae and cocoons) of other solitary species in the Hymenoptera order (other wasps, bees, and ants) to parasitize. That is, a female adult velvet ant will forcibly enter a nest to deposit an egg beside its larval victim. When the velvet ant larva emerges, it will consume this host within about a week before it matures and emerges from the host nest to seek a mate.
Beyond coloration, a female velvet ant will also produce a warning sound when provoked, further evidence that she wishes to remain docile, rather than fight. Despite their gory parasitism on which they rely to reproduce, adults simply feed on nectar.
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Cow killer ants (Dasymutilla occidentalis), also called red velvet ants and eastern velvet ants, are a species of velvet ant. Velvet ants are wasps, but named for their fuzzy, often wingless bodies that cause them to resemble large, furry ants.
Male cow killer ants have similar colors but slightly different patterns and they have dark brown or black wings. Cow killer ant size is also dependent on sex. Females are usually three-quarters of an inch long, while males can be larger.
The moments of gore rely a little too heavily on CGI for my liking, but, on the other hand, anything too lingering or detailed would take away from the fairly light-hearted tone the film has. The humour is exactly what you would expect from a film following an 80s rock band but their peyote-driven song genuinely made me laugh a lot, as did a number of the one liners.
If you enjoy your big killer animal films with a big dose of silliness, Giant Killer Ants is definitely worth checking out when it arrives on digital tomorrow (Monday June 17th) through Frightfest Presents.
In the 90's, I watched part of a color movie about a swarm of killer army ants. These were normal sized ants, it's just there were so many and they were so voracious that they were dangerous. I watched the movie on TV, I am unsure if it was a TV-edit of a theatrically released movie or if it was a straight-to-TV release. I was a little kid at the time so I didn't have this terminology, but it may have been a B-movie.
I recall one scene in which the police investigate a barn, and upon opening the door, they discover the ants devouring a cow; it's partially eaten and covered in ants. I believe the police are then attacked. I recall another scene, that I suspect was the climax, in which a man drives around a field, dropping dynamite into the ant hills. I think ants may have been climbing up his vehicle, but I'm not positive.
As indicated above, this is a '90s TV movie about killer ants. The ants in this movie eat people and animals alive and leave little more than bones behind when they're done with a meal. They're depicted with pretty poor CGI though, so they look very fake.
Regarding the two specific scenes you mentioned, there's a scene around the 55 minute mark where a farmer and a police officer enter a barn, and the ants are shown crawling all over the corpse of a cow. The ants then attack the farmer and the cop, so that's a perfect match for the first scene you described. 152ee80cbc
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