Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern states familiar with an invasive, stinging ant are facing a new foe: A hybrid bug that combines the fierce red fire ant ...

Fire ants are spreading across southern counties, bringing sharper health risks, farm damage, and tougher choices on control today ...

Red imported fire ants are an invasive ant species originally from South America. These aggressive ants have been spreading across the southern United States for years and are now found in at least 17 ...

Most of us associate ants with productivity. You probably imagine them digging tunnels, laying down pheromone trails, hauling food back to their nest, or, of course, maintaining their characteristic ...

Three species of fire ants have been found in North Carolina: red imported fire ants, black fire ants, and hybrid fire ants. Red imported fire ants are the most common fire ant species in North ...

Red imported fire ants cause significant economic damage and pose health risks. Climate change, urban sprawl, and flooding are exacerbating the fire ant problem in Florida. Scientists are exploring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giuseppe Battaglia walks in his beautiful garden on the outskirts of Avola, on Sicily’s southeastern coast. He is wearing long socks and sneakers, despite the September sun and 30-degree-Celsius ...