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, G. Sword, P. Nonacs, and two anonymous reviewers 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.