Fire Ants are a BIG PROBLEM that no one wants to address. I think it is because of severity of the problem. Fire ants have taken over everthing from Texas down to Florida and upwell into the Carolinas.
Abad argument for the problem is DDT. It has been held responsible from everything including the decline of Wild Quail to Hawks and every game species inbetween.
I don't know what the correct answer for fire ants is but i am very sure that they claim justas many lives of all species of animals from fur to feather that the south has.
Something has to be done, before our life time is up if we don't do something.
FireAnts will be all the way up into Canada.