Fire ants in Australia: a new medical and ecological hazard

McCubbin, Keith I; Weiner, John M

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04547.x

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"of insects . . . only the ants were troublesome . . . one green as a leaf and living upon trees where he built his nest . . . by bending the leaves together and glueing them . . . their stings were by some esteemd not much less painfull than those of a bee . . ."

1 Fire Ant Control Centre, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane, QLD.
2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC.

Correspondence: jmweiner@allergynet.com.au

Competing interests:

None declared.

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