Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest man ever to assume the office of President of the United States. Eight years later the fifty year old was still a robust, energetic man. Slipping quietly into retirement was not his style.
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.