A Cluster Immunotherapy Schedule for Imported Fire Ant

Safety and efficacy of an imported fire ant rush immunotherapy protocol with and without prophylactic treatment.

BACKGROUND Hypersensitivity to the sting of the imported fire ant (IFA) is a growing and significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Conventional immunotherapy with IFA whole body extract (WBE) has been shown to be effective; however, rush immunotherapy (RIT) with IFA WBE has not been studied. OBJECTIVE In this study, we evaluated the safety and efficacy of RIT with IFA...

A Naturally Occuring Teratology in the Red Imported Fire Ant

Polygynous Colonies of the Red Imported Fire Ant in Florida

Red Imported Fire Ant Impacts on Northern Bobwhite Populations

The stability of Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) populations in Texas, where high density polygyne red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) account for >50% of all (S. lnvicta) colonies, has been cited as a reason to repudiate impacts by this exotic species on Northern Bobwhite. We used two approaches to investigate the relationship between red imported fire ants and Northern Bobwhit...

Survey of Imported Fire Ant (hymenoptera: Formicidae) Populations in Mississippi