Hawai’i County Council passed the first reading of a bill that would provide $90,000 to the county to help battle the Little Fire Ants problem on island. The money would go towards the purchase of equipment and supplies to help battle the pests. Little fire ants are tiny red-orange ants one-sixteenth of an inch long, or about as long as a penny is thick. The bodies of mature fire ants, like the bodies of all typical mature insects, are divided into three sections: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen, with three pairs of legs and a pair of antennae. Fire ants of those species invasive in the Canada can be distinguished from other ants locally present, by their copper brown head and body with a darker abdomen. The worker ants are blackish to reddish, and their size varies from 2 mm to 6 mm. In an established nest these different sizes of ants all are present at the same time.