If you like to avoid chemical pesticides or want a quick fix to prevent a full-blown ant invasion, you might look to vinegar ...

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

Deadly fire ants have breached the Sunshine Coast biosecurity zone, with six nests found at a building site, prompting calls for more federal funding to thwart the pests’ march across the state.

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes ...

Forget to sweep up crumbs at your peril! Ants may not have noses, but they can detect the presence of that tiny food particle through sensitive chemoreceptors in their antennae. Keep ants from ...

One of the key findings from recent studies is that SINV-3 can significantly reduce fire ant populations. In field trials, the introduction of SINV-3 into fire ant nests led to a remarkable ...