Residents in the fire ant suppression zone are pleading for more support as numbers of nests and bites "explode" after Cyclone Alfred. In the Queensland government's so-called inner suppression ...

Another Queensland local found her puppy dead on top of a fire ant nest, ABC reported. On Monday, the Queensland state government announced funding for fire ant suppression measures worth 24 ...

Picture: NewsWire/Tamati Smith. More specifically, “a more concerted approach to yellow crazy ant eradication activities in Townsville and … Cairns” will cost $15.6 over three years.

“We had no idea about the fire ants when we first moved in – we saw ant nests but just thought they were normal ants.” Ms Britton, who is suffering from breast cancer, said she was bitten ...

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Ants: If you can locate the ants’ nest, spray it with insecticide. If the nest is outside, follow the ants’ movements to and from food sources. If the nest is inside walls or otherwise ...

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Those affected by flooding in southeast Queensland have been called upon to look out and report fire ant nests in their backyard, local parks, beaches or bushland, which are known to create ...