Eliminating fire ants from your yard is important due to the health and environmental risks they pose. Fire ants swarm when ...

From kudzu to emerald ash borers, invasive species threaten local ecosystems. Here is how you can help stop them.

Researchers and Extension entomology specialists across the South work together to develop control strategies for pests such as ticks, mosquitoes, bed bugs and more. This includes fire ants, which are ...

It's a rule here in the South. Following a heavy rain on Sunday, on Monday your yard becomes a death zone dotted with little, red-clay volcanoes—mounds teeming with fire ants just itching to sting you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red imported fire ants – known as RIFA – are spreading throughout the southern U.S., and if there are enough nests in an area, ...

Australia is being warned it risks billion-dollar economic damage and deaths to humans and pets if it does not ramp up ...

While the warm weather is a welcome change after a brutal winter, the spring and summer months also bring some pesky guests: fire ants. Native to South America, fire ants were accidentally imported to ...

Anyone who has ever stepped into a fire ant nest knows the sting all too well. It’s a painful reminder that these tiny ...

Knowing the rules behind ant-made structures could help scientists understand how other complex systems emerge in nature ...

You could accidentally make things so much worse ...