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 home. But here's the secret ...

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

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 most efficient method of controlling fire ants is the application of ant bait. However, most fish farmers are reluctant to use baits or other chemical methods of control because of the unknown ...

A new outbreak of fire ants has been detected in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. It follows the release of a report ...

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 ...

House painter Joel Booker was lucky not to have been attacked by red imported fire ants at the site of Queensland's latest fire ant outbreak. He repeatedly, unknowingly, walked past nests at a ...

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 ...