Wars have been fought over it, fortunes made and lost from it, empires risen and fallen over it, entire continents discovered seeking it, and people killed and enslaved to protect a treasure once considered to be more valuable than gold. Now sold seasonally with whipped cream.
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.