Fire Ants by Stephen Welton Taber, Texas A&M University Press,
$29.95, ISBN 0890969450
EACH sting from a fire ant feels like a burning match held against your skin.
That’s how they got their name. But an encounter with these creatures could
involve more than a few nasty bites. Fire ants live in huge earth mounds.
Stumble into one of these, and the dozens or hundreds of stings can cause
anaphylactic shock in sensitive victims, even death.
The world swarms with invasive species, from the dread zebra mussel infesting
North American lakes to the brown tree snake that devastated the birds…
