In gross but cool news, fire ants are actually dope little engineers. Vishwanath, an environmentalist, was documenting wildlife in the Madurai district of the Tamil Nadu state in India when he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drop a clump of 100,000 fire ants in a pond of water – or flood a huge area of Texas that’s infested with fire ants and drive them out of their nests in large groups. In minutes the clump will flatten ...

PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (WRIC) — Invasive Red Fire Ants have been identified in Prince George, and residents are warned to be on the lookout for signs of their colonies. The ants can be identified, of ...

The massive challenge of casting the largest fire ant colony we've ever encountered, weighing an incredible 66lbs. Using molten aluminum, we capture every detail of this invasive species’ intricate, ...

The Bee Gees wrote and performed it, but it’s red imported fire ants that have truly mastered the art of “Stayin’ Alive.” Since their arrival in the 1930s, fire ants have spread across the United ...

KAUAI COUNTY, Hawaii (KITV4) -- After detecting a new colony of Little Fire Ants (LFA) on Kauai, officials with the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) are asking residents to be vigilant ...

Scientists have discovered that a new form of ant society spread across species. They found that after the new form of society evolved in one species, a 'social supergene' carrying the instruction-set ...