High Point Enterprise in High Point, North Carolina

Fire Ants No Real Threat To State Experts Say

Environmentalists pushed Mirex ban and laws to prevent use of chlorinated hydrocarbons after Jan. 1. NC State Extension’s Rudy Hillmann says fire ants are a nuisance but not a threat to people. bites can be dangerous to allergic individuals. They dot southeastern farms and recently reached Charlotte, likely via nursery plants from Alabama.