An invasion of “highly aggressive” imported red fire ants has taken hold in an affluent California community, officials reported. The ants, native to South America, have infested Montecito ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound ... Which is basically a giant nursery: a nice, cozy place to raise babies. A lot of babies. Their mother, the queen, roams around the ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black, brown, red, or yellow ... ants have a variety of biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting with a venom ...

Video evidence of the rafting has been documented on cane farms south of Brisbane - where fire ants have already infested about 700,000 hectares of land. Native to South America, red imported fire ...

Red imported fire ants, a venomous invasive species of ant, are on the verge of becoming established in Japan. Once it has become an established species, the little arthropod, known as “hiari ...

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South America, as “invasive alien species.” Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of ...

"You definitely don't want to get covered in fire ants," says Matt Shadlow, from the UK-based insect conservation society Buglife. "Steer clear of them." Red imported fire ants (solenopsis invicta ...

HONOLULU–The Hawai’i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) has conducted two surveys for little fire ants (LFA) at Pua Lani Landscape Design, a Waimānalo nursery that came to the forefront during ...