Fire ants inflict painful stings and create unsightly mounds in our landscapes. Unfortunately, there is no treatment that will eradicate them from a yard permanently. You will have to control fire ...

Behold, the tiny-but-mighty odorous house ant. Known by many names — Tapinoma sessile, sugar ant, “a darn nuisance” — odorous house ants are likely the tiny insects that residents ...

If you’ve ever battled ants in your kitchen, you're not alone. These tiny pests might seem harmless, but they’re clever and relentless. And now, scientists might have found help in a ...

Fire ants form rafts to survive flooding, but how do those bonds work? And what can we learn from them? A professor is researching those questions to expand our knowledge of materials science.

Many of us grew up fearing bull ants, but have you ever been stung by a jack jumper ant? If you have, you’ll likely never forget it. Capable of sending an allergic human into anaphylactic shock, the ...

Found in northern Singapore, the fiercely named ants are surprisingly timid—and are still shrouded in mystery. “The best way to collect and observe live ground ant colonies is to really get ...

As the warmer months roll in, so too does an increase in garden pests – and ants are among the most persistent. In fact, humans are outnumbered by ants nearly 2.5 million to one. With over ...

They are builders, miners, carpenters and farmers. And despite a mostly undeserved reputation for being a stinging pest, Australian ants do an extraordinary amount of environmental heavy lifting.

ANT Middleton has finally sold his sprawling family home for £1.35million - meaning he could be set to net himself a fortune. The former SAS: Who Dares Wins star, 44, was forced to put the five ...

Originally found in places like China and Korea, the Asian needle ant was first introduced to America in the 1930s, but was overlooked for nearly a century, according to Dan Suiter, a Georgia ...

Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx claimed they had collected the ants for "fun" and didn't know it was illegal when authorities descended on their guest house in Kenya last month. The young men ...