Southern states familiar with an invasive, stinging ant are facing a new foe: A hybrid bug that combines the fierce red fire ant and the hardy black fire ant. Imported fire ants have spread from their ...

Whether you have dodged their mounds while walking around your yard or endured a painful sting, you know how pesky and dangerous fire ants can be to humans, pets, and gardens. Known as red imported ...

No creature embodies the idea that “it takes a village” quite like ants. Using chemical signals and other ephemeral communication methods like antennal codes, ants can work together to build or ...

Have you been seeing a lot of fire ants lately? If you live in a southern state in the U.S., chances are your area could actually be under quarantine due to the large numbers of imported red fire ants ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia officials have expanded the quarantine zone for imported fire ants as the South American insects continue to spread throughout the state. Last week, the Virginia Department of ...

EAST TEXAS - Just last week, I kneeled down to get a closer look at a weed and put my knee squarely in a fire ant mound. I swatted my pants leg and got all of them off without getting stung. It was a ...

Three species of fire ants have been found in North Carolina: red imported fire ants, black fire ants, and hybrid fire ants. Red imported fire ants are the most common fire ant species in North ...

Texas has plenty of native things that can potentially hurt us, like scorpions and coyotes and, well, lawmakers, so the last thing we needed was a hostile carpetbagger from out of state. But in the ...

Forget fangs full of venom — the backsides of serpents pack secretions volatile enough to kill insect invaders. By Joshua Rapp Learn A writhing ball of slimed-up, musky-smelling snake might be just ...