Giuseppe Battaglia walks in his beautiful garden on the outskirts of Avola, on Sicily’s southeastern coast. He is wearing long socks and sneakers, despite the September sun and 30-degree-Celsius ...

This kind of bites: Climate change is making fire ants an increasingly hot topic in Florida these days. But our efforts to tame them may only be scratching the surface. Red imported fire ants rank ...

HONOLULU – October is Stop the Ant Month in Hawaii and a multi-agency effort throughout the month will encourage residents to collect and submit ants from their properties to help detect and control ...

Rodney Morrow from Central Life Sciences discusses strategic planning for a "deploy and destroy" mission against the invasive red imported fire ant (RIFA) in the southern U.S. In this replay of our ...

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 ...

Detection dogs from Australia's National Fire Ant Eradication Program recently uncovered several invasive fire ant nests at five mining sites in Queensland's Bowen Basin. "It's deeply concerning," ...

If you’ve ever stepped on a fire ant nest, you know these tiny insects don’t play games! Their painful bites can cause you pain and discomfort for days after the initial bite, especially if you simply ...

Fire ant anaphylaxis prevalence (0.085%) now exceeds all flying Hymenoptera combined (0.083%) in the 14 US states where these invasive insects have established colonies. Patients with systemic ...