24 Aug 2018

Biosecurity Queensland puts kids in Loganholme at risk of fire ant stings

A kids’ jumping castle was erected on a fire ant nest in a park in Loganholme because Biosecurity Queensland does not put signs on fire ant nests to warn the public of the dangers. There has been a lot of property development in Loganholme, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, recent years. It likely became infected in 2014 because Biosecurit...

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13 Aug 2018

Biosecurity Queensland uses dishonest science to claim its baits kill fire ants

In a vain attempt to counter damming criticism in 2010 that Biosecurity Queensland cannot prove its standard baiting program kills fire ants, the program’s science team published a paper in 2014 that claims its standard program kills fire ant nests while having minimal impact on local ants. Dishonestly, the paper DOES NOT say the standard bait...

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06 Aug 2018

Did Biosecurity Queensland miss over 50 large fire ant nests in Lanefield, west of Ipswich, infested for 10 years?

It appears, in June 2018, a large team of field assistants reported a small property in Lanefield to be fire ant free, only for another team to find over fifty large nests on the same property a few days later. If so, is this evidence that Biosecurity Queensland’s operations are haphazard or evidence that Biosecurity Queensland’s reports ar...

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