Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

A frightening new threat has emerged in the wake of Cyclone Alfred - floating fire ants. Footage has emerged of thousands of ...

Tired of those pesky red fire ants ruining your lawn with their mounds? The LSU Ag Center has shared ways to deal with them ...

Ant colonies are so tightly knit and efficient, they can pass useful knowledge between generations, which some experts believe constitutes a colony ... defenses. Fire ants bite and sting ...

Thousands of fire ants inundated his property this week as they tried to get away from rising floodwaters. Mr Locke said he had been bitten "at least 30 times" while attempting to ...

Taking clear inspiration from classics such as SimAnt and Dungeon Keeper, players will be able to dig through the earth, build tunnels and chambers, hunt for food and raise large colonies.

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South ... ants can inhabit a single nest, enabling a colony to grow at an explosive rate.

The gene that underlies a locus determining complex differences between two social forms of fire ants is a homolog of ... and a new colony emerges. By contrast, polygyne queens are smaller and ...

“When the water comes through, the fire ants come to the surface, lock their legs together and float with the water as a whole colony to new locations to re-establish themselves,” he said.