{"id":27373,"date":"2014-09-08T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T00:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=27373"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:41:29","slug":"how-to-identify-and-control-little-fire-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/08\/how-to-identify-and-control-little-fire-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"How to identify and control little fire ants"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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A little fire ants nest which includes multiple large, black queens; small white eggs, larger white pupae and little orange workers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Little fire ants, first found on Oʻahu<\/span> about six months ago, are continuing to spread throughout the island. The ants are already well established on the Big Island and have been found but were controlled on Kauaʻi<\/span> and Maui.<\/p>\n

Faculty and staff at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> and the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Department of Agriculture<\/a> have tips for identifying and controlling these invasive and damaging pests.<\/p>\n

See the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources news release<\/a> for the steps for basic detection and control. Discover where the little fire ants live, a method for detection and how to get rid of them. The college also offers a free publication Little Fire Ant Products Available for Homeowner Use<\/em><\/a> for download.<\/p>\n

More about the little fire ants<\/h2>\n

Little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata<\/em>, is a serious pest because this tiny ant can easily spread undetected into yards and homes, parks, landscapes, vacant properties and forests.<\/p>\n

Little fire ants deliver a very painful sting (similar to an electric shock) to people, pets, livestock and even marine wildlife such as sea turtles and ground-nesting birds. The little fire ants are attracted to eye fluids and typically sting near animals’ eyes, which can lead to blindness due to clouding of the cornea, or keratopathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources scientist share tips for identifying and controlling the invasive and damaging little fire ants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[222,212,9],"class_list":["post-27373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-agriculture","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27373"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150617,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions\/150617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}