Fire Ants: Texas Border Massacre

Nothing seems to stop these alien invaders - not flood, nor fire, nor pesticides. They band together to form a brutal red tide, killing indiscriminately and stripping their victims to the bone. But one ravaged community has a secret weapon - and a plan to deploy it. Fire ants are voracious predators that attack anything in their path - swarming over rodents, insects, birds and even immobilized humans too weak or injured to flee. These alien invaders have no known predators and they can easily survive massive eradication efforts and natural disasters. On the rough and tumble plains of South Texas, small towns are under siege as the insidious ants sneak into homes, attack animals and deliver painful bites that take weeks to heal. But the good citizens of Mineral, Texas have decided to fight back, employing a revolutionary new biological weapon - a fly that attacks and kills the ants in a dark, insidious way. This fascinating program takes us inside a Fire Ant colony, where a ruthless queen destroys her rivals and spawns armies of flesh-eating killers. Re-creations reveal terrifying attacks on humans, some of whom are swarmed in their beds. And stunning video shows how the ants survive almost anything, even floods, by creating a living ball of bodies and rolling to safety. It's an intriguing hour with a strong central narrative of one town's crusade to kill the ants - that also combines strong natural history and disturbing real-life stories.