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

If you saw this circular raft floating down a river you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a discarded deep-dish ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire ants are forming rafts out of their own bodies in Texas floodwaters. This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have ...

Fire and water do not normally mix. But when it comes to these imported fire ants, water is not a problem. In this extraordinary YouTube clip, we get to see. A colony of fire ants is dealing very ...

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