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Answer for the clue "Stung by these perhaps, destroy a nest beside tree ", 9 letters:
fire ants

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n. (fire ant English)

Usage examples of fire ants.

Thus, we hope to wipe out or at least greatly reduce the numbers of the fire ants.

Make a deal with them, and they'll open a path through the fire ants.

Bryan was rubbing his shoulders, sunburnt and chewed-up by fire ants, and just recently scraped by Shw's having bounced him against the concrete.

Back when he was twelve or thirteen he'd watched a nature programme about fire ants in the Amazon basin.

If you do enough methamphetamine, byproducts of phenyl-2-propanone, a chemical used in the manufacturing of the drug, begin to accumulate in your brain tissue, and if you're as dedicated to amped-up recreation as Crank had been, eventually you'll experience toxic psychosis, which is maybe less fun than being eaten alive by fire ants, though not a whole lot less.

He knew about the ants of this region, fire ants, with many-holed mounds, whose sting made a burn that hurt for hours.

Soon enough, though, he was pounding those notes as if trying to crush fire ants.