Sicily is on the front line of Europe’s fire ant invasion. If it fails to contain the spread, more countries will be at risk.

"Asian needle ants have a potent and painful sting, but they’re not aggressive like fire ants. They usually only sting when ...

The pain caused by ants does not come from their bites. In fact, they use a venomous stinger. A biologist has recently ...

Venomous Asian needle ants are spreading in the US. They're already in Mississippi. The sting hurts more than fire ants, can kill. What you need to know ...

The Guam Department of Agriculture is developing a plan to keep little fire ants out of a conservation forest along Cross ...

An invasive ant species native to East Asia has spread to every corner of North Carolina, and it can cause health and ...

When it comes to pest nests, you don't want to mess around with misidentification. Some are harmless to people, but others ...

What's worse than an ant bite? A fire ant bite. Fire ants, as their name might suggest, are reddish insects with stingers and venom pouches that they may use to attack areas of exposed skin, according ...

I first experienced fire ants in the mid 1990s while living near Atlanta, and I have hated them ever since. My 1-year old son, who was playing on the concrete walk in front of the stoop, belted out ...

With the tremendous amount of water that was dropped on the Houston area, flooding was expected. With flooding comes the problem of various "critters" trying to find safe dry ground. Fire ants are no ...