An invasive species that landed in Queensland two decades ago is heading south for New South Wales and may wreak ecological and economic havoc.
Fire ants are a pest in Australia and are believed to have arrived in Brisbane around the year 2000 via shipping crates from the United States.
“The cost of action on fire ants is far cheaper than the cost of living with fire ants,” Reece Pianta from the Invasive Species Council told The Guardian on Friday. Fire ants could cost New South Wales over $1 billion every year. Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.
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