Acknowledgements
We would like to thank R. Puckett for help with field sites and comments
on an earlier draft of this manuscript, B. Reid and W. Welch for
providing access to Coulter Field, J. Underwood, M. Arceneaux and C.
Webb for their help sampling, P. Lenhart, L. Garcia, W. Sconiers, E.
Bockoven, P. Aranda, B. Elkins, J. Hewlett, and C. Lin for helping to
maintain the fire ant colonies and overall support for the project, and
J. Light and G. Sword for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this
manuscript. This material is based upon work supported by the Texas A&M
AgriLife Research Invasive Ant Research and Management Grant, the Texas
Ecolab Program, a fellowship from Texas A&M University, and the
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No.
DGE 1252521. It was also supported by the Sid Kyle Endowment in the
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Texas A&M University
and the Urban Entomology Endowment at Texas A&M University. Any
opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this
material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the National Science Foundation.