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 ...

This damage adds up: From 1930 to 2021, invasive ants caused an estimated $51 billion in economic losses. Ants range in size from the miniscule ... biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting ...

Maps of estimated fire ant locations encompassed from 10 to 100% of actual fire ant nests surveyed when there was a minimum of a single fire ant within a station. Low percentages of overlap between ...

Hybrid fire ants, well established in East Tennessee and parts of Kentucky and North Carolina, are now infiltrating Southwest Virginia.

which actually increased in size during the same period[1]. This suggests that SINV-3 could be a viable biocontrol agent against fire ants, as it is host-specific and does not appear to have ...

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 ...