Are aphids overrunning your garden? Margie Siegal gives tips to rid yourself of these little insects—and the ants that farm ...

Skip to content viewer section. The presence of a few red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren, workers on aphid bearing cotton plants reduced aphid predator effectiveness in the laboratory.

For example, ants have a variety of biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting with a ... cooperatively builds extensive traps from plant fiber. When an insect steps on one of the trap ...

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 ...