fire ant

There is a separate group of fire ants living in California.

She should have died, consumed by fire ants and cold.

Fire ants often attack small animals and can kill them.

Now, fire ants in their native ecosystem are not a bad thing.

He wondered how they felt about mosquitoes and fire ants.

Each year, about 25,000 people go for medical help because of painful bites from fire ants.

Make a deal with them, and they'll open a path through the fire ants."

A year later, imported fire ants invaded the field station.

More often, we hear a jungle story of fire ants and polluted water.

It was too cold for the fire ants, but the animals were always hungry in winter.

The thing about fire ants is that they are moving across the country and knocking out a lot of native species.

The fire ants are growing in the US 80 years after they came there.

Soon enough, though, he was pounding those notes as if trying to crush fire ants.

One day she finds the baby covered with fire ants, showing no reaction.

Q. How did the fire ants get to these shores, anyway?

Some species, like the red imported fire ant, live in places where they came to by accident.

This coating may provide protection from fire ants and other predators.

In that one, he accidentally stuck his hand into a nest of fire ants.

"Basically, anything that stands still for longer than 15 or 20 seconds is fire ant food," he said.

Brown also worked to halt the spread of the imported fire ant.

I guess that's how a fire ant invasion looks to small animals in the ecosystem.

If that traffic light you pull up to in Georgia is not working, there may well be fire ants nearby.

Because of this, fire ants have spread very fast.

Fire ants have also disturbed the natural balance of native ecosystems.

We need to cross the fire ant column to deliver a letter.