Whether you have dodged their mounds while walking around your yard or endured a painful sting, you know how pesky and dangerous fire ants can be to humans, pets, and gardens. Known as red imported ...
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 ...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] has confirmed the “presence of red imported fire ants [Solenopsis ...
MAUI, Hawaii (KHON2) — October is ‘Stop the Ant’ month, and one type of ant has been particularly annoying over on Maui for many years now. The Tropical Fire Ant – more commonly known as the red ant. ...
July 2, 2006 — -- Last week, Janet Wallace Roedl Shiansky, a 68-year-old South Carolina woman, went into anaphylactic shock and died after being attacked by ants while she was gardening. The ants ...
Fire ants can assemble astonishing living structures, including massive colony-migration bridges. This article explains how ...
MISC crew members search for and treat little fire ants wherever they are found —including in trees and on the ground. Maui Invasive Species Committee/Katie Ernst The Maui Invasive Species Committee ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia officials have expanded the quarantine zone for imported fire ants as the South American insects continue to spread throughout the state. Last week, the Virginia Department of ...