New Hurricane Harvey threat? Millions of venomous, floating fire ants

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New Hurricane Harvey threat? Millions of venomous, floating fire ants

By Jared Gilmour
jgilmour@mcclatchy.com


August 28, 2017 10:15 AM
Houston, Texas is only beginning to take stock of the damage Hurricane Harvey has inflicted. But now the city has another problem on its hands.
Floating colonies of fire ants, as many as 500,000 in one group, are banding together to stay above water in flood-wracked Houston—and they bite, according to Houstonia magazine, though no one has been bitten yet amid Houston’s flooding.