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      <title>Fire Ant Quiz</title>
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      <title>Parishes with Spreaders for Area-wide Programs</title>
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      <title>Distributors of Fire Ant Bait</title>
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      <title>Cost-Effective Methods for Cultural Control of Argentine Ants</title>
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      <title>Fire Ant Mounds at St. Gabriel Research Station</title>
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      <title>Ant Issues Vol. 4: Fire Ant Bait</title>
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      <title>Ant Issues Vol. 5: How Fire Ants Move</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:18:47 GMT</pubDate>
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