Landowners in the Sunshine Coast hinterland have been left reeling after the deadly fire ant pest was found at a local ...

Authorities are investigating how fire ants came to be at a rural subdivision but say it is likely they arrived in mulch, plants, turf or soil.

Forest ants crawling over the surface of an ant hill, built from the needles of coniferous trees. Fire ants nest. Concept of ant colony in the world of insects life. Fire ants nest. Concept of ant ...

Imagine a small, rare and endangered lizard or bird is hatching out of its egg. If there is a fire ant nest 150 metres downwind, then within minutes the fire ants will smell the little creature ...

Fire ants often live in huge colonies. There are thousands of them in each colony. Even if you can find the nest, it is nearly impossible to kill them all. However, Ortho can destroy the mound in 15 ...

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South ... but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit a single nest, enabling a colony to grow ...

The motion was carried unanimously in the affirmative. “This is to detail the current aerial and ground baiting for fire ants in the Tweed Shire,” the motion stated. “How many nests have been found?

There are exceptions, however. One of the reasons fire ants have proven so globally invasive is that they form supercolonies, with ants from neighboring nests uniting to suppress other species ...

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