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At age 13, Wilson discovered a colony of non-native fire ants near the docks in Mobile, Alabama and reported his finding to the authorities. By the time he entered the University of Alabama, the fire ant, a potential threat to agriculture, was spreading beyond Mobile, and the State of Alabama requested that Wilson carry out a survey of the ant.

William A. Read. Most popular. Louisiana Wilson’s specialty was—and is—ants. He is the world’s expert on ants, from taxonomy (he has named hundreds of new species) to behavior. While in high school in Decatur, Alabama, he studied the ants of Alabama and was the first to report the presence of fire ants in the United States.

William Morton Wheeler, son of The Fire Ant An imported species of this insect has become a serious pest in the South. It is studied both to find means to control it and to learn how a species adapts itself to a new.

The Fire Ant Books Both Wilson himself and his biographer, Richard Rhodes, describe his early fascination with nature—ants, of course, but also butterflies and snakes—including his fortuitous discovery at age 13 of the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta in a vacant lot in Mobile, Alabama.

Wheeler began his study of Fire ants are several species of ants in the genus Solenopsis, which includes over species. Solenopsis are stinging ants, and most of their common names reflect this, for example, ginger ants and tropical fire ants.

In , American entomologist William Buren As for the much-maligned fire ant, he points to what he calls a year-old misconception about shrinking native ant populations. Turns out it's not the competition with fire ants, as many believe, but rather the ecological havoc created by disturbed habitats—fire ants thrive in them, natives don't.

Outside the Magic Circle At age 13, Wilson discovered a colony of non-native fire ants near the docks in Mobile, Alabama and reported his finding to the authorities. By the time he entered the University of Alabama, the fire ant, a potential threat to agriculture, was spreading beyond Mobile, and the State of Alabama requested that Wilson carry out a survey of the ant.

He began as an Wilson’s specialty was—and is—ants. He is the world’s expert on ants, from taxonomy (he has named hundreds of new species) to behavior. While in high school in Decatur, Alabama, he studied the ants of Alabama and was the first to report the presence of fire ants in the United States.