That's the battle cry of Sanford Porter. He's an entomologist in Florida who's enlisting head-hunting flies to battle nasty fire ants. These pesky ants are cropping up in suburban Florida and across the south. Fire ants pack a powerful sting that can raise a painful red rash on people and animals. They also sting other bugs, including other ants whose turf they want to take over.
Fire ants chew up crops, too.
They even get into electrical boxes and homes, where they cause more havoc. When the ground is disturbed and insects there are fighting for survival, fire ants often win out. That's because they don't have any natural enemies in this country. Now Porter has declared war on this fearsome ant. And his weapon is a tiny fly that is a natural enemy of the fire ant in South America, where these ants came from.