Although scientists have identified over 12,000 species of ants, you'll be relieved to know that only a few are likely to turn up in your house or garden. When you find these unwelcome invaders, ...

Fire ants are serious (and invasive) pests that are far more than just a nuisance—their stings happen suddenly and repeatedly, and they leave behind painful welts, itchiness, and even allergic ...

Conjoint Associate Professor in clinical pharmacology and toxicology, St Vincent’s Healthcare Clinical Campus, UNSW Sydney Red imported fire ants are a particularly nasty type of ant because they are ...

Acrobat ants (Crematogaster genus) are found across the U.S. and are a favorite of Entomologist Charles Armstrong. “Simply because I love—if you’ll excuse the pun—their cute little heart-shaped ...

If you live in a rural or suburban area in the Southern states, you’ve likely seen a fire ant hill a few times in your life. Stepping on a fire ant hill, sometimes referred to as a mound, can mean ...

As habitat loss and fragmentation continues, many in the scientific community view landscape corridors as important for connecting habitat fragments to maintain biodiversity. And yet, might those same ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thousands of Red Imported Fire Ants gather in a bucket in Edward LeBrun’s lab. They crawl over each other, forming balls of red stingers, in an attempt to escape the bucket. Moments ...

Like flees and rats that carried the bubonic plague to Europe from Asia in the fourteenth century, two of the four fire ant species arrived in the American south from southern Latin America. They did ...