The billion-dollar battle to wipe out the red imported fire ant | 7.30

The red imported fire ant is a super-pest: a threat to crops, animals, and people.

Now, more than two decades after the first colony was detected in Brisbane, the ants are spreading with nests spotted across the border in NSW. Adam Harvey reports.

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