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

One of the key findings from recent studies is that SINV-3 can significantly reduce fire ant populations. In field trials, the introduction of SINV-3 into fire ant nests led to a remarkable ...

As well as posing environmental and economic threats, fire ants can be deadly to humans and animals. Source: AAP / SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE 根据非政府组织入侵物种委员会（the Invasive ...

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.

The nests were destroyed using a liquid insecticide that day and state government biosecurity and fire ant officers launched immediate broadscale treatment and surveillance. A National Fire Ant ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it ...

Fire ant mapping of the Gold Coast in mid-2023 ... and tenants co-operating with officers to ensure fast and effective treatment. “Our eradication officers work diligently with property ...

Fire ants are known to infest more than 800,000 ... to follow up and investigate what may have gone wrong," he said. "The treatment is supposed to repel the ants, so something has happened.