Sure hope they're right: - from Texas A & M:
http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/ENTO/Oct3105b.htm
New ENEMY For Fire Ants Is Here !!!
Woohoo! I hope that works and there's no negative repercussions with the Phorid fly. I wouldn't have wanted to be the one to collect those nasty fire ants!
Good job to those who did!
On the one hand, YIPPEEEEEE, and send me some! On the other, don't you have to wonder whether, down the road, we'll have to import yet another alien to take care of the phorid fly problem? I don't know! It just makes you wonder.
But I'm more happy than fearful about it. I've made a deal with the FAs at my place -- if they'll build away from the house, I may mow them but won't poison them. Near the house, the poison comes out. I've only been there 11 months, but it seems to be working.
That article was about a year and a half old - wonder what the current state of affairs is.
Did the flies survive all the cold spells? Sure hope so. I know almost every yard in the Houston area would volunteer to host a colony.