In a report to be published in early 2018 in Florida Entomologist, he and his colleagues document an established population of the little yellow ant (Plagiolepis alluaudi) in Fort Lauderdale, discovered after a colony had infested a home in the area. The little yellow ant is a tropical species, native to Madagascar, but it has made its way to the Caribbean sometime in the past decade. Now it’s been found in Florida.