Bait surveys were undertaken in the summers of 2016 and 2017 for ants on the primary dunes of three Georgian barrier islands. Species diversity was higher than expected, with multiple new records for the state. Assemblage abundance and incidence data indicate each island to be at a different stage of invasion by Solenopsis invicta, the red imported fire ant, with the ant assemblage composition and species richness of each islands affected by the degree of S. invicta presence. Collaborating sea turtle monitoring programs throughout the state collected ants from sea turtle nests which were most commonly S. invicta, but also multiple native ant species, implying that sea turtle nests may be an opportunistically scavenged resource by both invasive and native ants.