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	Lockley: Imported Fire Ants
		One of the identifying characteristics of a fire ant colony is the earthen nest or mound.
		Imported fire ants are attracted by electrical currents and have caused considerable damage to heat pumps, air conditioners, telephone junction boxes, transformers, traffic lights, gasoline pumps, et cetera.
		Solenopsis (Labauchena) dagerrei is a parasitic ant that attaches to the fire ant queen and redirects fire ant workers to tend the brood of the parasite to the detriment of the colony's own larvae.
	ipmworld.umn.edu /chapters/lockley.htm (3221 words)

	Nature & Science » Biology Resources » Integrated Pest Management Manual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fire ants are so called because their venom, injected by a stinger like a wasp's, creates a burning sensation.
		Fire ants have caused sections of roads to collapse by removing soil from under the asphalt.
		Fire ants are voracious predators and sometimes feed on pests such as boll weevils, sugarcane borer, ticks, and cockroaches.
	www.nature.nps.gov /biology/ipm/manual/fireants.cfm (3973 words)

	Report on Fire Ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fire ants are among the worst insect pests ever to invade the United States.
		One factor accounting for the rapid spread of fire ants in a region is the transport of queens and colonies by movement of nursery stock.
		Fire ants infected with a microorganism were released in Arkansas and Oklahoma to reduce the numbers of the imported ants.
	www.lapublichealth.com /vet/news/fireant.htm (1148 words)

	Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA)
		Identification of fire ants to species is difficult and usually requires evaluating the morphology (size and shape of the body parts) of 40 to 50 worker ants.
		Fire ants pose a threat to young or debilitated livestock that may not be able to escape attacks by ant workers.
		Fire ant mounds in a field may interfere with foraging livestock and the voids that form beneath abandoned mounds may collapse beneath the weight of an animal leading to injury.
	www.ext.vt.edu /pubs/entomology/444-284/444-284.html (2898 words)

	Imported Fire Ants in Tennessee
		The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, the fl imported fire ant, Solenopsis richteri Forel, and their hybrid are nuisance insects and their stings can cause serious medical problems.
		Imported fire ants interfere with outdoor activities and harm wildlife throughout the southern United States.
		Consideration of biological control of fire ants may not be compatible with some types of insecticide use.
	fireants.utk.edu (482 words)

	Sustainable Fire Ant Management
		In a Texas study, imported fire ant spread was observed as a continuous moving carpet of fire ants spreading slowly across the landscape.
		Fire ant populations are reduced through a combination of aerially applied baits plus biological controls of phorid flies and Thelohania solenopsae, a disease-causing protozoan released around the perimeter of the treated area.
		Charles Barr, fire ant specialist with the Texas Cooperative Extension, states that spinosad is considered organic because it is produced from a bacterial fermentation process that produces a toxin, which is then extracted and put into a bait.
	www.attra.org /attra-pub/fireant.html (3599 words)

	P1833 The Imported Fire Ant And Its Control
		Hybrid ant -- This is a cross between the red and the fl imported ants and is found where the ranges of these ants merge with one another.
		Fire ant colonies typically average 11,000 workers within a year, 30,000 workers within 1 to 1½ years, and 50,000 to 250,000 within 2½ to 3 years.
		Fire ant control or management is difficult, and acceptable control depends on a number of factors.
	msucares.com /pubs/publications/p1833.htm (1825 words)

	APHIS \| News
		Imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta Buren, S. richteri Forel, and their hybrid) were accidentally introduced to the United States.
		Fire ants are probably best distinguished by their aggressive behavior and characteristic mound–shaped nests.
		Ants travel longer distances by hitchhiking in motor vehicles and in or on soil, plants with roots and soil attached, nursery stock, sand, gravel, grass, sod, hay, wood, or soil–moving equipment.
	www.aphis.usda.gov /lpa/pubs/fsheet_faq_notice/faq_phifa.html (1161 words)

	ODA Plant Division Imported Fire Ant
		Imported Fire Ants or IFA have been an agricultural and health problem in the U.S. for almost 80 years.
		Fire ants have now spread to eleven California counties spanning the southern part of the state northward to Sacramento County.
		BIFA are all fl, while RIFA have a reddish-brown forebody and fl abdomen.
	egov.oregon.gov /ODA/PLANT/ippm_rifa.shtml (1561 words)

	AAAAI - Patients & Consumers Center: Tips to Remember: Health hazards of imported fire ant stings
		Fire ants are stinging insects that belong to the same order as bees and wasps.
		Fire ant venom is unique because of the high concentration of toxins, which are responsible for the burning pain characteristic of fire ant stings.
		Fire ants have been found as far west as California and as far north as Washington D.C. Their migration appears to be limited by the frost line.
	www.aaaai.org /patients/publicedmat/tips/fireants.stm (987 words)

	Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)
		The fl imported fire ant is confined to northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama.
		Worker fire ants will attach to the skin using their mandibles and will subsequently lower the tip of the gaster to inject the stinger into the victim.
		Additionally, fewer reproductive alates of fire ants are produced with the males often being sterile and the females weighing less (Hedges 1998, Vinson and Sorenson 1986).
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /IN352 (3348 words)

	Imported Fire Ant - FAQ
		Imported fire ants are often the worst where native ants have been disrupted by soil disturbances that accompany home and road construction, or exterminated by broad spectrum pesticides.
		Imported fire ants are now permanent residents in the U.S. Eradication is possible from pesticides only temporarily and only at a local scale, but not at a regional level.
		Fire ants probably don't kill plants but they can diminish their health and vigor by tending aphids and mealy bugs on stems and roots.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~gilbert/research/fireants/faqans.html (6765 words)

	Pest Control
		The red imported fire ant apparently was introduced in to the Mobile, Ala, or Pensacola, Fla, area from central Brazil between 1933 and 1945.
		The fl imported fire ant was apparently introduced before the red species around 1918 in the Mobile area.
		It is important to distinguish between the red imported fire ant and the native fire ant in order for appropriate control measures to be taken.
	www.sandmountainpest.com /fireants.htm (1340 words)

	Fire Ants are Spreading Like Wildfire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fire ants are stinging insects related to bees and wasps.
		The fl imported fire ant, a native of Argentina and Uruguay, and the red imported fire ant, a native of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, appear to have entered the United States through Mobile, Ala.
		Fire ants have an adverse impact on agriculture and wildlife, including the decimation of some ground nesting birds, turtles, frogs and arthropods species.
	www.saferbrand.com /fireants.htm (986 words)

	Insects: Fire Ants
		The fire ant, by best estimates, was introduced into the United States in 1918 or 1919 through the Port of Mobile.
		Black Imported Fire Ant (BIFA) and Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA) = Hybrid Fire Ant (HFA): In actuality, two different species of fire ants were imported during the early days of the fire ant: the fl imported fire (Solenopsis richteri) and the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta).
		At the present time, the true BIFA is found mostly in the northeast corner of the state, with some scattered colonies along the Mississippi/Tennessee border.
	msucares.com /insects/fireants (394 words)

	Managing Imported Fire Ants in Urban Areas
		The USDA Imported Fire Ant Quarantine program is administered by state regulatory agencies (e.g., Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, Arkansas State Plant Board, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Clemson University Department of Plant Industry, Texas Department of Agriculture).
		Fire ants require water to survive and are often found near creeks, run-off ditches, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and other bodies of water.
		Fire ant management programs can be successful, but because they are usually implemented by individual landowners and managers, reinfestation from nearby untreated areas generally occurs.
	pubs.caes.uga.edu /caespubs/pubcd/B1191.htm (8674 words)

	Fire Ants
		Near the turn of the millennium the dominant species, the red imported fire ant, finally made its long-feared leap across the hostile western desert into the greener oasis of southern California, where it stood poised to infest the richest agricultural region in the country.
		These are the red imported fire ant, the fl imported fire ant, the tropical fire ant, the southern fire ant, and the golden fire ant.
		Also examined are the pros and cons of fire ants, their medical importance, and suggestions for future research.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/2000/taber.htm (441 words)

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		The fl or dark species, Solenopsis richteri, was introduced first in Mobile, AL about 1918 and remained confined to the immediate area for about 10 years.
		Mounds are generally dome-shaped in contrast to those of other fire ant species, and the sting, characterized by an intense burning sensation, is more severe.
		The ants have a serious impact on agriculture since the hardened mounds interfere with the mechanical cultivation of fields and the ants' painful stings interfere with livestock grazing and the harvesting of crops by farm workers.
	www.ceris.purdue.edu /napis/pests/ifa/facts.txt (788 words)

	Links - Red Imported Fire Ants - Insect Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fire Ant Research in South Carolina - South Carolina provides the entire 1999 Proceedings of the Imported Fire Ant Conference, along with a listing of their funded projects.
		Louisiana State University and Fire Ants - Louisiana has developed an online quiz you can take after going through their pages - it asks questions such as "Winged ants are called?" a.
		For example, Maryland has been fighting fire ants in small areas since 1988 in the hopes of keeping this pest from establishing in their state.
	www.aragriculture.org /insects/fireants/links.htm (418 words)

	Black imported fire ant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Long thought to either be a Subspecies or color variation of Solenopsis invicta, the fl imported fire ant (Solenopsis richteri) is now recognized as its own species with a demonstratably different range and living habits.
		The fl imported fire ant seems to be less tolerant of cold and less of a dominant species, and its northern and southern ranges are much less extensive.
		This article related to an ant is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_imported_fire_ant (126 words)

	red imported fire ant - Solenopsis invicta
		Imported fire ant stings: clinical manifestations and treatment.
		Diffie S, Sheppard C. Impact of imported fire ants on Georgia Homeowners.
		The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as a possible serious predator on some southeastern vertebrates: direct observations and subjective impressions.
	creatures.ifas.ufl.edu /urban/ants/red_imported_fire_ant.htm (2694 words)

	Stridulation Sounds of Black Fire Ants (Solenopsis richteri) in Different Situations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alarm signal generated by fl fire ants when a microphone probe is inserted into their mound.
		Normal movement sounds of a group of ants with occasional bursts of stridulation sound from a single ant.
		Sounds of ants attacking a caterpillar with stridulation sound from a single ant.
	home.olemiss.edu /~hickling (120 words)

	Ant classification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ants, and other organisms, are classified into what is called a taxonomic hierarchy.
		Examples - ants, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, butterflies, bees, wasps, dragonflies, termites, cicadas, aphids, fleas.
		Examples - Red imported fire ant, Black imported fire ant, Southern fire ant.
	flrec.ifas.ufl.edu /entomo/ants/ant_classification.htm (173 words)

	HAWAII ANT GROUP - Ant Nest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Monitor and report progress on ant research in Hawaii.
		Aid local agencies and researchers by acting as a clearinghouse for ant information.
		Increase public awareness of ants and their present and potential impact on Hawaiian ecosystems and quality of life.
	hbs.bishopmuseum.org /ants (162 words)

	Imported Fire Ant - FAQ
		When your question or similar questions appear on a regular basis, we will answer it on this web page.
		How do you communicate your project goals and results to the general public?
		Why do we have so many imported fire ants in Texas?
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~gilbert/research/fireants/faq.html (589 words)

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