Flying Ants

WHQR | By Andy Wood

Published October 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM EDT

"The fire ants I was watching, also called imported fire ants, have origins in South America and they are more aggressive and invasive than our native fire ants."

By Andy Wood

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Wilmington, NC – Following more than a week of off and on rainfall, some of it substantial, a change in the weather seemed to be in the making as I was taking an account of some wet places around my property.

Andy Wood is education director of Audubon North Carolina and author of "Backyard Carolina," a collection of his WHQR commentaries.

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Andy Wood

Andy Wood, a WHQR commentator since February 1987, is an ecologist and conservation educator with an affinity for ecosystem habitats in and around southeastern North Carolina, and the plants, wildlife, and people they support. A collection of Andy’s commentaries is collected into his first book, Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary.

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