The article is 30 years out-of-date. Fire ants in the South around homes have for decades been easily controlled with "Amdro"-type baits. Everyone in the South

The article is 30 years out-of-date. Fire ants in the South around homes have for decades been easily controlled with "Amdro"-type baits. Everyone in the South, except the article's author apparently, knows this. The real news is another new (2002) invasive species, the tawny (Rasberry) crazy ant (nylanderia fulva). Very small, fast and evasive, they out-compete fire ants, don't sting but bite and worst of all, collect around electrical wiring, sometimes shorting it out. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/crazy-ants-invasive-species-destroys-electric-wiring_n_3415153.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/crazy-ants-invasive... http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/ants/rasberry.html http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/ants/rasberry.html