Usually captive ant colonies don't have nuptial flights indoors, but this fire ant colony unexpectedly did, and the escaped fire ant queens and males were everywhere. What was worse was that a ...

Southern states familiar with an invasive, stinging ant are facing a new foe: A hybrid bug that combines the fierce red fire ant and the hardy black fire ant. Imported fire ants have spread from their ...

No creature embodies the idea that “it takes a village” quite like ants. Using chemical signals and other ephemeral communication methods like antennal codes, ants can work together to build or ...

Caption A study conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Lausanne showed that genes involved in creating developmental differences in honeybees and fire ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Guam Department of Agriculture is developing a plan to keep little fire ants out of a conservation forest along Cross ...

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] has confirmed the “presence of red imported fire ants [Solenopsis ...

The U.S. South knows few worse pests than the tiny fire ant, an uninvited guest that came up from South America nearly 50 years ago and settled down for a long visit.The little insects bite people ...

Spring weather is here to stay bringing a pesky, stinging insect with it. See what we know about the fire ant and how to ...