If you live in a rural or suburban area in the Southern states, you’ve likely seen a fire ant hill a few times in your life.

For example, the Allegheny mound ant (Formica exsectoides), native to eastern North America, has a distinctive appearance ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it ...

As spring approaches, warmer weather triggers the flowers to bloom and insect pollinators begin to make an appearance along ... will be coming out.” “Fire ants are going to start emerging ...

For example, ants have a variety of biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting with a venom called solenopsin. They can also survive floods by clumping together to float on the water’s surface.

The University of Hawaiʻi this week announced that a recent survey of the area turned up just one ant — only a year after dozens of houses in the Lanikai loop and beach areas were found to be ...

Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service entomologist provides Australians with Texas-based expertise on eradicating fire ants.

Fire ants are a dangerous, invasive species. They also make incredibly complex nests. David Gatlin found a way to get rid of ants nests and create beautiful art at the same time: he pours 1,400 ...

Residents have been told to be on high alert for fire ants, as ex-Cyclone Alfred may have helped the 'super pest' invasive species spread through Queensland. Since arriving in Australia in the ...

A new, 30-acre infestation of little fire ants in Hauʻula has prompted a renewed call for better invasive species management in Hawaiʻi. Last week, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources ...

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South America, as “invasive alien species.” Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of ...

Red imported fire ants, a venomous invasive species of ant, are on the verge of becoming established in Japan. Once it has become an established species, the little arthropod, known as “hiari ...