Growing infestations along the Logan river pose ‘very high risk’ of spreading downstream, Invasive Species Council says
An increase in fire ant infestations along Queensland’s Logan river are raising concerns Australia’s worst invasive species could form floating rafts and spread downstream.
“They can spread in flood events, to land on and re-infest properties where the fire ant colonies had previously been destroyed.” “In Queensland, we’ve just come off a couple of weeks of fairly solid rain, and we’re starting to see our first evidence of fire ants rafting,” he said. “Fire ants won’t march into NSW; they will either be carried with materials such as soil, mulch, hay and turf, or fly in by natural spread from Queensland. Which is why we’re ramping up surveillance in these high-risk areas,” the NSW agriculture minister, Tara Moriarty, said at the time.
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