Damage to North Carolina and Florida Highways by Red Imported Fire Ants

Authors

W. A. Banks, USDA
C. T. Adams, USDA
C. S. Lofgren, USDA

Date of this Version

1990

Comments

Published in The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Mar., 1990), pp. 198-199.

Abstract

The increasing importance of the red and black imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren and S. richteri Forel as economic pests is documented in reviews (Lofgren 1986, Adams 1986) and bibliographic lists (Banks et al. 1978, Wojcik & Lofgren 1982, and Wojcik 1986). This report of damage by red imported fire ants (RIFA) to highways in North Carolina and Florida further emphasizes their pestiferous nature.