ST. JOHNS RIVER, Fla. – It may look like a pile of dirt. Or floating debris on top of the water. But if you look closer, it’s actually a mound with thousands of aggressive and venomous fire ants.

Fire ants are spreading across southern counties, bringing sharper health risks, farm damage, and tougher choices on control today ...

Joe Parker, a Caltech entomologist who has studied indigenous forest ants in key canyons above Pasadena and Altadena for eight years, felt his heart sink as he watched live video of the Eaton fire ...

Carpenter ants often get the blame when a tree dies and thousands of the little scurriers are found running in and out the crime scene. The truth is they didn’t do it. The ants were just taking ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It might sound unbelievable, but residents of Texas’ capitol are reporting fire ants floating on floodwaters, forming living rafts out of their own bodies. On Wednesday morning, one ...

Ants have been seen healing wounded trees in Panama—behavior that is believed to have never been observed before. When holes were drilled into Cecropia tree trunks, the ants emerged from their homes ...