Kenyan police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier this month aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers ...

Spring weather is here to stay bringing a pesky, stinging insect with it. See what we know about the fire ant and how to ...

A newly hatched decapitator fly bursts from the head of a fire ant that it parasitized and killed. | Credit: USDA-Agricultural Research Service Once the ant turned its back on the colony and ...

You could try pouring boiling water into fire ant mounds. It can work, but be careful not to burn yourself (or anyone else).

Advion Fire Ant Bait can kill a fire ant colony within a couple of days, and you can spread it over a yard for seasonal management. If you don’t properly handle an infestation, you can split the ...

Their mother, the queen, roams around ... 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 ...

Targeted insecticides can be applied to individual mounds to eliminate the queen ant. For widespread ... are generally ineffective in eradicating fire ant colonies. They're uninvited guests ...

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

The most common fire ant species, the red invaders are a mix of lots of worker ants and one or several queens per colony. Workers only live a few months at most, while a queen ant − which can ...

Stepping on a fire ant hill, sometimes referred to ... products that call the ants and even target the queen to ensure that the entire colony is killed. These products typically include acephate ...

As the warmth of spring creeps in, so too does the relentless return of the pesky ant ... back to the colony. This allows the ants to share the bait with the queen and the rest of the colony ...