Rice Ecologists Study Ants after Harvey (IMAGE)

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Rice Ecologists Study Ants after Harvey

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Rice University ecologists Sarah Bengston and Tom Miller examine ants at Big Thicket National Preserve near Beaumont, Texas. The researchers are studying whether Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented floods gave a competitive boost to invasive fire ants and crazy ants.

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