Need help identifying an ant, it's about 3/8 of an inch, red in color/ stinger is white & black like a target

Question

Need help identifying an ant, it's about 3/8 of an inch, red in color/ stinger is white & black like a target

Answer 1

Florida fire ant perhaps

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddsherman...

Answer 2

Learn to ID them, here -

http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740

http://greennature.com/article1899.html

http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/a...

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

http://www.insectimages.org/

Answer 3

This question really bothered me.  I've seen them too and had no idea what they were called.  It turns out that they are actually a "velvet ant" which is a solitary wasp.  The one in question is Timulla floridensis.  Here's the link.

http://bugguide.net/node/view/159