Nine To Twenty Individual Fire Ant Queens Started U.S. Fire Ant Population

Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 08:35 in Biology & Nature

The current U.S. population of red imported fire ants--which infest millions of acres across the southern states -- can be traced back to nine to 20 queens in Mobile, Alabama.

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