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Program Keeps Fire Ants Population Down In New Orleans

Last Updated: May 16, 2007 Related resource areas: Imported Fire Ants

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There was one set of residents New Orleans didn’t want back after the hurricanes – red imported fire ants.


Radio News released May 14, 2007

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Last year, Louisiana State University AgCenter entomologist Linda Hooper-Bui and the city’s mosquito and termite control board made a push to get the city fire ant free.

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