Experts say black fire ants arrived in the U.S. in 1918 and red fire ants in the 1930s, leading to a massive population increase, with five times more ants per acre than in South America, and they're infamous for their bites and stings.
No other species of insect carries as many negative connotations as red ants, but some researchers believe that observations of these pests may lead to advancements in material engineering.A study led by researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Colorado examined the insects' ability to bind together to survive heavy rainfall events.
"A natural progression of this work is to determine how we can induce interactions between these ribbons or other soft building blocks to ‘catch’ under load, similar to the behavior of fire ants and certain biomolecular interactions," Wagner stated.According to experts at Texas A&M, black fire ants were accidentally imported into the U.S. in 1918, and it wasn’t until the 1930s that red fire ants were introduced.The red ant population has since exploded, and the U.S.
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