The number of fire ant nests plaguing Brisbane backyards have skyrocketed, with confirmed cases five times higher than in 2014.
Fire ant nest sites have risen from nine hundred in 2014 to a reported eight thousand six hundred in 2020.
Head of the National Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program, Mark Furner says, “The number of properties with confirmed infestation has increased predominantly in eastern areas, where the program has not yet commenced the eradication or clearance phases.”