high humidity temps range from 70-95 fire ant mating occur first sunny day after rain .Winged female and male reproductive ants called alates leave the mound fly several hundred feet up in the air and mate in flight .The males die soon after but the female go on to establish new colonies .
The female search for nesting sites and are often drawn to shiny surface reflections of water as a landing place .
Finding them in the pool can be an important signal that a new wave of fire ant colonies will soon establish mounds in the surrounding landscape.
they do not sting but they do carry pois