If you haven't had the experience of touching a fire ant mound and had a swarm of them run onto your foot to sting you, make sure you keep your distance when you see them. The experience is one you will not soon forget.
Fire ants have been imported into North Carolina in loads of pine needles and other products brought in from other states and the creatures continue to spread into many areas of the state. So much so the state is stepping up efforts to try to slow the spread and is now quarantining movement of materials that the ants can be found in. Read more about the continuing problem...
The Raleigh Chronicle
Staff and Wire Reports
March 28, 2007
Fire ant movement sparks quarantine expansion
The continued movement in North Carolina of the imported fire ant, which can inflict very painful venomous stings, has caused the state to expand its quarantine on movement of hay, logs, sod, dirt, and soil equipment in several more counties including Granville County which is just north of Durham.
The NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said this week that it is expanding the quarantine for the imported fire ant "in a continuing effort to monitor and slow the spread of the pest."
The state says that with the expansion, the quarantine now includes portions or entire areas of 61 counties. Read more...
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