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 ...

Amazing new footage captures the moment when thousands of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) create a life-saving raft by interlocking their limbs and mandibles. The clip, from National Geographic's ...

On November 14, the NSW government reported that fire ants, including six queens, were discovered at a farm in Eureka in the ...

A three-year-old colony can hold as many as 100,000 fire ants and a mature queen can lay up to 5,000 eggs per day. In recent decades, fire ants have spread across the US, China, Taiwan ...

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 ...

“There’s an international reputation at stake here.” Perhaps most devastating of all is the impact fire ants could have on Australian flora and fauna. RIFA eat just about anything and, as Mark ...

fire ants are especially good at it because of their South American homeland. Mr Pianta said they've been found over there "forming massive, multi-colony-sized rafts", with the pests adapting to ...

The last time there was a confirmed sighting of a Carolina panther in the state. A fire ant colony can contain up to 500,000 worker ants, with a queen colony often consisting of several mounds.

Each Argentine ant colony has multiple queens, allowing the colony to expand rapidly both in population and territorial control. Today, native Californian ant species like harvester ants and ...

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.

Red imported fire ants (solenopsis invicta ... so if you get on the wrong side of a colony you could end up with them swarming all over you. People with allergies to them can also get angry ...