As well as posing environmental and economic threats, fire ants can be deadly to humans and animals. Source: AAP / SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE 根据非政府组织入侵物种委员会（the Invasive ...

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South America, as “invasive alien species.” Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of ...

A group of Gold Coast residents has called in lawyers to mount a possible class action against the state’s “aggressive and ...

Ants remember their encounters with individuals from another nest and treat every member of that nest accordingly. Although ...

Red imported fire ants, a venomous invasive species of ant, are on the verge of becoming established in Japan. Once it has become an established species, the little arthropod, known as “hiari ...

The Fire Ant An imported species of this insect has become a serious pest in the South. It is studied both to find means to control it and to learn how a species adapts itself to a new environment ...

Much as I agree with the need to eradicate the red imported fire ant or RIFA (Solenopsis invicta), there is no need to misreport or sensationalise. The baby that died in the day care centre in America ...

The red imported fire ant is one of the most dangerous animals to have evaded Australia's environmental controls. Source: AAP / SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE ...

Following is a transcript of the video. 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 ...

Australia's fire ant authority says "downright dangerous" misinformation spread on traditional and social media is hampering its efforts to eradicate the pest. The National Fire Ant Eradication ...

Specialist officers charged with trying to eradicate fire ants are fearing for their safety after a growing surge of hostile landowners. Officers working desperately to control the rapid spread of ...