How to Fight Fire Ants

Four steps for controlling fire ants on your playing fields.

Fire ants reportedly infest more than 260 million acres in nine southern states alone (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas), and they've been detected as far north as Washington, D.C., and as far west as California. Yet many facility operators outside of the South, where the 1/4-inch-long creatures with reddish-brown heads and blackish-brown ends arrived from South America in the early 1900s, may not be aware of the threat the insects pose. Their painful stings leave white pustules on skin and may cause allergic reactions.

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