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 ...

Fire ants swarm fast and sting hard. If you step on a nest, leave the area immediately, brush the ants off instead of ...

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 ...

This kind of bites: Climate change is making fire ants an increasingly hot topic in Florida these days. But our efforts to tame them may only be scratching the surface. Red imported fire ants rank ...

Hybrid fire ants, well established in East Tennessee and parts of Kentucky and North Carolina, are now infiltrating Southwest Virginia. Imported red and black fire ants first appeared in Virginia in ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service, or VDACS, has expanded the state’s Imported Fire Ant Quarantine to include six additional counties and four independent cities, citing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A venomous and invasive ant species is making itself at home in more parts of the U.S., and experts are warning that the threat is ...

Virginia has expanded its Imported Fire Ant Quarantine zone to include Petersburg and surrounding areas due to a growing infestation. Imported fire ants, originally from South America, pose risks to ...

Tom’s Pest Control Brisbane outlines what residents in South East Queensland should know as fire ant biosecurity zones are updated and expanded. We’ve helped several landscaping businesses develop ...