Red imported fire ants formed rafts comprising a colony with a queen and eggs to escape flooding at Scenic Rim, Queensland.

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 ...

This study presents an important finding that ant nest structure and digging behavior depend on ant age demographics for a ground-dwelling ant species (Camponotus fellah). By asking whether ants ...

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: That mound is ...

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 ...

it's unlikely to get rid of all the fire ants in a colony. If you don't mind heading to the store to get your fire ant problem under control, pick up some insecticide that's specifically made for ...

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 ...

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 ...