ST. JOHNS, FLA. — In two weeks, children in northern Florida return to school and may find something more frightening than homework: fire ants. The 2013 summer’s excessive rains have caused fire ant populations to explode, just days before the school year begins. At one school, the fire ant problem was so bad that Trad’s […]
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