Americas Most Wanted Red Imported Fire Ant

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Americas Most Wanted Red Imported Fire Ant

• By Avree

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Description

• Black thorax and red upper body
• Light red anatine
• Also light red legs
• 5 mm long

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Invaded Area

• U.S
• is an introduced species that arrived in Mobile,
  Alabama from South America around the 1920s
• have infested 13 states and more than 300 million
  acres
• spread into areas of North America with mild
  climates
• Alabama , Arkansas, California, Florida,
  Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico,
  Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas

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Problems

• 40 million per acre
• Fiercely aggressive and armed with a potent
  sting
• much more aggressive than native fire ants
• Can attack and cause painful stings on humans,
  pets, and livestock
• ants flood onto their victim
• May wait ten seconds before sting

• colonies consist of 500,000 or more
• ants' mounds can be as high as two feet,
  rendering it impossible to cultivate and harvest
  crops from infested fields
• More than 80 people have died in the united
  states from them

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Control

• Poisonous powder that ants eat

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What They Eat

• seeds
• Plant
• Bark off of citrus tree
• pretty much every thing they can get a hold of

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Fast Facts

• spread into areas of North America with mild
  climates
• The ants disperse naturally through mating
  flights
• mass movement of colonies or by floating to new
  locations in flood water
• Fire ants can travel long distances when
  newly-mated queens land in cars, trucks or trains
• Ants have an pheromone alarm

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Red Imported Fire Ant vs The Olive Fruit Fly
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Conclusion

• All in all, the red imported fire ant is similar
  to the olive fruit fly because they are both
  unwanted. Their differences are that the red
  imported fire ant stings people and the olive
  fruit fly stings the olive. I have learned that
  the red imported fire ant and the olive fruit fly
  are dangerous and unwanted.

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Sources

• http//nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/http//www.pbs.org
  /wnet/nature/behavingworse/leastwanted.htmlhttp/
  /www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/animals/main.shtml
• http//dnr.wi.gov/invasives/
• http//library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01507/http//
  library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00946/accounts/reptil
  es.htmturtle