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Fort Smith Times Record
Alone they are tiny, insignificant, unimportant. But together they can cause hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage a year. They are fire ants.
Scientists discovered that fire ants had infested Sebastian and Logan Counties as well as Prairie and White Counties about two years ago, said Paul Shell, a plant inspection and quarantine program manager with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture.
But just recently the state officially added those four counties to the state quarantine to try and prevent the spread of fire ants.
That means people cannot remove any of the following items from the quarantine zone without treating them: nursery stock with soil or potting media, grass sod, baled hay stored in contact with the soil, baled straw stored in contact with the soil, as well as soil and used soil-moving equipment.