Hunting for natural enemies of the red imported fire ant is paying off for Agricultural Research Service scientists. Their latest discovery -- a new virus found in fire ants from Argentina -- has the ...

This ant killer is incredibly effective at wiping out fire-ant colonies, but it is toxic to people and animals, so it must be used and stored with great care. Also, as a granular product, it is not ...

Like flees and rats that carried the bubonic plague to Europe from Asia in the fourteenth century, two of the four fire ant species arrived in the American south from southern Latin America. They did ...

Red imported fire ants are an invasive ant species originally from South America. These aggressive ants have been spreading across the southern United States for years and are now found in at least 17 ...