October is “Stop the Ant Month” in Hawai`i and this month-long multi-agency effort encourages all residents to collect and submit ants from their properties to help detect and control the spread of invasive little fire ants (LFA) and to detect other harmful pest ants that may be new to the state. With the public’s help, […]
Click here to Request your FREE ant collection kit for October, Stop the Ant Month!
It’s that time of year when we ask for Hawaii residents’ help to detect new infestations of harmful ants like Little Fire Ants (LFA), or even ant species that are not yet known to be present in Hawaii! We can’t survey everywhere, so your help is really important, and collecting ants for identification is even […]
Stop-the-Ant Month 2019: Lots of new ant reports across Hawaii – test for them today!
Little fire ants (LFA) have kept Hawaii officials busy in 2019. On Oahu, there were at least 4 detections of previously undiscovered infestations of LFA, while on Maui, the 14th detection on the island was announced in September. Each of the new infestations was found thanks to the vigilance of residents reporting them to state […]