Eva Inanna
Governor
Fire ants are a much neglected method of torture.........
This indeed seems to be the case: an image search retrieved very few formicophilia pictures.
Having spent most of my early years in a land were bull ants and army ants are rather common, I become acquainted with the delight these little creatures can deliver.
The American entomologist Justin Orvel Schmidt categorized 4 levels of pain caused by bees, wasps and ants
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/magazine/the-connoisseur-of-pain.html)
The most painful was the ‘bullet ant’ (Paraponera clavata)
What it can do is described in https://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/014/
In a recent visit to the Iguazu Falls, walking the viewing gangways that surround the falls, on the handrail it was one of them, a truly giant of an insect, larger than a human finger phalanx
Not to mention the love of wasps