“Commonly referred to as sugar ants, these ants can be several types of small ants,” including odorous house ants ... which ...

A reader in Fairfax Station, Va. A: Carpenter ants can cause serious structural damage to a house, so it’s smart to be concerned. These unusually large ants — often a quarter to half an inch ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ... the ants from every threat. It turns out, all sorts of critters sneak inside fire ant nests. And while many of them are harmless, others are horrible house ...

Whole streets in Texas are underwater, and social media has filled with images of clumps of floating fire ants, massed together in a structure on the surface. Entomologists say it is normal ...

For example, ants have a variety of biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting with a ... capable of forming so-called supercolonies that house hundreds or even thousands of queens.

Flies in this genus are the subject of considerable interest because they have the potential of being used as classical biological control agents against imported fire ants in North America. This ...

Fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters across storm-ravaged Australia, aiding the spread of one of the world's most invasive species. Considered a super pest, fire ants can cause ...

The pheromone also showed strong effects on red imported fire ants. “The pheromone, which is not toxic, could be used on a compact scale, such as applying it to the base of a wall to prevent ...

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 ...