Talk:Red imported fire ant

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[edit] POV

This article has an inexcusable POV title: it is not "imported" in the species' native range, and the title should reflect its native context, not its context as a pest species in countries where it is introduced. Ditto for the text as a whole, which needs a lot more balance and information about its natural ecology in its native region - MPF 23:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Move the article then? Mushintalk 11:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, it appears that entomologists acknowlege the common name "red imported fire ant". It's all over the Web, along with its taxonomic name. Ditto for Black imported fire ant, which is part of a group that includes S. geminata, S. invicta, S. richteri, S. saevissima and S. xyloni. The title should stay as-is, but the article could explicitly state that the common name is, well, common, and not a biased view of the authors. It should also be rewritten to be neutral or present a more global point of view. --QuicksilverT @ 20:19, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization

The article contains inconsistencies concerning the capitalization. For example, the article title is “Red imported fire ant” (lowercase) while the first five words in the introduction are “the Red Imported Fire Ant” (uppercase). Web searches do not help with my decision-making because I am receiving mixed results, although most either are all lowercase (i.e. red imported fire ant) or have all first letters of words in uppercase (i.e. Red Imported Fire Ant). For some more consistency, which one should we go with? --HeteroZellous 22:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Because nobody has replied within 10 days, I have proceeded to change the capitalization to favour the all-lowercase, which I presume is the article title. --HeteroZellous 00:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] references

started that this article doesn't cite any sources (I just added the first one, as far as I can tell), yet another publication used the article as a reference. Is that upsetting to anyone else? --

Mikeblas 22:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Fire Ant

It appears that the fire ant article refers to the genus to which the RIFA belongs. As far as I can tell, it's standard to have a separate article for genera and species within a particular genus, so I'm removing this tag. Gimme danger 05:07, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mississippi?

Someone just removed Mississippi from the list of states in which the RIFA lives. I can't see why, I'm going to revert it. Gimme danger 00:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hot? take a chill stupid dog...?

"The worst damage usually occurs during hot, dry weather when they invade flowerbeds while seeking warmth and moisture." Wtf? -b 01:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture of a nest?

Can someone add a photo of a fire ant nest? Perhaps even a before/after showing that an innocuous mound of dirt turns into a seething mass of pissed off ants within seconds if the nest is stepped on, unlike other ants. Gront (talk) 07:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)