The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America

by Joshua Blu Buhs (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2004

  $39.23

  Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, a coterie of fire ants came ashore from South American ships docked in Mobile, Alabama. They invaded the South, damaging crops, harassing game animals and hindering harvesting methods. The US Dept of Agriculture developed a campaign that failed to eradicate the ants ..