A provocative new international study published in Austral Ecology warns the massive "broadcast baiting" campaign currently ...

A woman was airlifted from Cold Spring Trail near Tangerine Falls in Montecito after suffering an allergic reaction to fire ...

Invasive fire ants, first arriving in the U.S. in 1918, have spread throughout the Southeast, causing problems for residents and farmers. Adding to the problem, red and black fire ants are ...

Joe Parker, a Caltech entomologist who has studied indigenous forest ants in key canyons above Pasadena and Altadena for eight years, felt his heart sink as he watched live video of the Eaton fire ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Anyone who has spent much time outdoors in East Texas knows the frustration of fire ants. Whether you’re mowing the yard, walking through a hay meadow or checking fences, ...

Gardeners preparing summer vegetable gardens may find their plots already teeming with life, but not the kind they would like to see. Fire ants are common in yards, flowerbeds, playgrounds and gardens ...

ORLANDO, March 22, 2024 – UCF Biology Professor Joshua King has won the 2023 Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize and $100,000 for an innovation he created to control a ubiquitous pest — fire ants. His ...

WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Fire Ants traditionally were confined to the Gulf States and far south in Tennessee, but they have migrated north in recent years, spreading locally by development, as ...

Ecologists alarmed after ‘one of the worst invasive’ species found in ancient Australian rainforest - Ants could have a $2bn per year-impact on Australia’s economy, researchers say ...

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 ...

“Fire ants roam from yard to yard and have no regard for property lines,” Brown said. “They’re easily dispersed during their periodic mating flights, and a high percentage of mounds in Texas have ...