Poor Control For Unstoppable Fire Ants

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Article:
https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/118/3/248/8112975?login=false

New, kind of bad research over states the ability of predators to control invasive fire ants

Tingting Zhang, Xiaokang Li, Meng Liu, Lisheng Zhang, Mengqing Wang, Yuyan Li, Zhongjian Shen, Jianjun Mao, Might tiger beetles serve as effective predators of fire ants? Preliminary investigations using the golden-spotted tiger beetle, Cosmodela aurulenta (Fabricius), Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 118, Issue 3, May 2025, Pages 248–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saaf012