Fire ants can form a raft to move along waterways and there are concerns they may have spread during record floods in southern Queensland, but the Agriculture Minister says the floodwater was moving too fast for this to happen.
But Mr Perrett was not convinced, and called on the minister to provide an update on the state's 10-year eradication program, which is about halfway through.
The National Fire Ant Eradication Program began in 2017 with a $411 million budget from the Commonwealth, states and territories.According to the plan, the current incursion takes in a large area of South East Queensland, stretching across the Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim, Somerset and Ipswich local government areas.Landholders question aerial assault
The owners of a Lockyer Valley horse spelling and agistment farm fear the current control measures are not working fast enough.They do not want the ants to spread, but worry about the impact of chemicals dropped from helicopters on their horses and would prefer a targeted ground operation. "When they used to do the dogs to identify nests, they could actually treat those individual nests and actually destroy the ants in them."
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