In the 1770s, a young woman appeared in the American colonies, claiming to be a sister of Queen Charlotte, the queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland.
Solenopsis invicta, the “Red Imported Fire Ant”, native to South America, has proven a tenacious and destructive pest in the United States, costing Americans billions of dollars every year. That is why, in the late 1950s, the United States embarked on an all out war against the six-legged menace.