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How to know if we’re winning the war on Australia’s fire ant invasion, and what to do if we aren't

Written by Daniel Spring, Research Fellow, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne

Fire ants like these can give a nasty bite.Shutterstock/SweetCrisis

More than A$400 million of government funding is being invested in the latest round of the fire ant program in the hope of eradicating the invasive pests by 2027.

But recent reports on the ABC suggest the invasion is spreading beyond containment lines in south-east Queensland, and...

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