Georgia's Department of Agriculture is intensifying its fire ant eradication program in an effort to stay ahead of the fast-spreading pest.

Buchheister told delegates to the West Coast Audubon Convention that aerial spraying in Louisiana failed to destroy its target, the fire ant.

In the end, the crew overcame illness, soldier ant invasions, leaking boats, poor food, attacking hippos, bad water filters, fierce heat, isolation, and a boat fire to complete a memorable film.

* Arkansas: fire ant abatement districts ( general law )

Red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta

The fire ant Solenopsis invicta is a species that is expanding in range around the world and is most often involved in medical emergencies.

Some fire ant attacks on humans confined to beds have also been noted it has been noted that fire ants can be a particular threat in medical facilities in some locations since they can have nesting colonies inside human habitations.

# REDIRECT Red imported fire ant

The mechanism is best known in crickets and grasshoppers, but other insects which stridulate include Curculionidae ( weevils and bark beetles ), Cerambycidae ( longhorned beetles ), Mutillidae (" velvet ants "), Reduviidae ( assassin bugs ), Buprestidae ( metallic wood-boring beetles ), Hydrophilidae ( water scavenger beetles ), Cicindelinae ( tiger beetles ), Scarabaeidae ( scarab beetles ), Glaresidae (" enigmatic scarabs "), larval Lucanidae ( stag beetles ), Passalidae ( Bessbugs ), Geotrupidae ( earth-boring dung beetles ), Alydidae ( broad-headed bugs ), Miridae ( leaf bugs ), Corixidae, notably Micronecta scholtzi, the Black imported fire ant ( Solenopsis richteri ), and some species of Agromyzidae ( leaf-mining flies ).

* Solenopsis invicta, the scientific name for the red imported fire ant

Along with the red imported fire ant ( Solenopsis invicta ), the big-headed ant ( Pheidole megacephala ), the little fire ant ( Wasmannia auropunctata ), and the Argentine ant ( Linepithema humile ), the yellow crazy ant is one of the five species of tramp ants, known for invasive behavior and devastating ecological effects.

It is an important predator of pest species such as the red imported fire ant and the clover root curculio.

A fire ant worker, queen, and male ( clockwise from bottom left )

A typical fire ant colony produces large mounds in open areas, and feeds mostly on young plants, seeds, and sometimes crickets.

Pure fire ( the stars ) is in the heavens.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

The chancellor of the Exchequer wrote on the petition: `` in myn opinion it is very resonable and conscionable for hir maiestie to graunt in relief of this towne twise afflicted and almost wasted by fire ''.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

The total adverse impact of disease, insects, fire, weather, destructive animals, and other forces on the uses and values of forest resources is not generally recognized.

It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.

The most intriguing aspect of the S & W Magnum chambered for the new Jet is that it can also fire standard

Lightweight, non-absorbent, fire resistant and dimensionally stable, it is easily bonded to the wood with contact cement.

Your insurance, too, with most agencies, is provided with the car, covering comprehensive fire, theft, liability and collision with a deductible clause which varies in different countries.

the fire of love is dead, and Hardy stands, as the speaker does in the last poem of the sequence, over the burnt circle of charred sticks, and thinks of past happiness and present grief, honest and uncomforted.

The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.

The only cardinal sin which may be committed in warming a wine is to force it by putting it next to the stove or in front of an open fire.

He is credited with setting up an annual co-operative fire prevention program in co-operation with the Red Cross and State Department of Education.

In the end the good man, John Proctor, expresses what the audience has already come to feel when he says, `` A fire, a fire is burning!!

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

The fire salamander is black and yellow, indicating that it is toxic.

At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??

The snake was hideous, and I remembered, even then, the cool, bright fire of it only a little while before, and I thought perhaps the boy had always seen it dead and hideous like that, and had not even stopped to see the beauty of it in its life.

People born under the astrological signs of Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are thought to have dominant fire personalities.

Cats of all types, especially the lion and tiger are also thought to personify the element of fire, as are all predatory creatures, such as the fox.

In particular, early Aborigines are thought to have been fire-stick farmers using fire regularly and persistently to drive game, open up dense thickets of vegetation, and create fresh green regrowth for both humans and game animals to eat.

He was embarrassed by a friendly fire episode in which his unit and another British unit thought the other was the French enemy and opened fire, with 14 dead and 26 wounded in the mishap.

He owes his place in our history books to a ' no smoke without fire ' school of thought ...

This is a ' thought experiment ', in which a cannon on top of a tall mountain is able to fire a cannonball horizontally at any chosen muzzle velocity.

Because they were unaware that several controls needed to be operated to fully activate the repeater system, fire chiefs at their command post in the lobby of the North Tower thought the repeater was not functioning and did not use it, though it did work and was used by some firefighters.

At Naqsh-e Rustam can be found the tombs of the Achaemenid kings as well as the Ka ' ba-ye Zartosht, which has been thought to be either a Zoroastrian fire temple or possibly even the true tomb of Cyrus the Great.

In the USA, entire oak ecosystems have declined due to a combination of factors still imperfectly known, but thought to include fire suppression, increased consumption of acorns by growing mammal populations, herbivory of seedlings, and introduced pests.

Strange to say, in 1596 the report was spread by the Jesuits in Germany, France, England, and Italy that Beza and the Church of Geneva had returned into the bosom of Rome, and Beza replied in a satire that revealed the possession still of his old fire of thought and vigor of expression.

For reason to be involved, the association of smoke and the fire would have to be thought through in a way which can be explained, for example as cause and effect.

The 1960 exposition hall was destroyed in a spectacular 1967 fire, despite being thought fireproof by virtue of its steel and concrete construction.

Along the shores of Jackson Lake, fire pits, tools and what are thought to have been fishing weights have been discovered.

Light vehicles such as technicals are often thought to be more mobile than armoured vehicles, but on one occasion an African peace-keeper driving a Grizzly AVGP whose guns had jammed, succeeded in catching up with, ramming and rolling over a fleeing Sudanese technical whilst ignoring the technical's apparently ineffectual heavy machine-gun fire.

The venom of the serpent is thought to have a fiery quality similar to a fire spitting dragon.

* The victim is typically alone at the time of death and is thought to have been alive when the fire started, despite showing little sign of having struggled.

For the ancient Greeks, fire had divine connotations — it was thought to have been stolen from the gods by Prometheus.

He recovered his weapon, and was thought to angrily shout " Damn you, fire!

About the same time, the Pythagoreans thought that the Earth was a sphere ( in accordance with observations of eclipses ), but not at the center ; they believed that it was in motion around an unseen fire.

The word lohi-in lohikäärme is also thought to derive from the ancient Norse word lógi, meaning ' fire ' as in the Finnish mythology, there is also mentions of " tulikäärme " meaning firesnake, or fireserpent.

Mitchell's Tavern was thought to be over 100 years old in 1865 and stood until 1940 when it was destroyed by a fire.