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 ...

Scientists across the South are warning the public about the spread of invasive Asian needle ants, whose painful stings can trigger life threatening allergic reactions and disrupt native ecosystems ...

The fastest ways to get rid of fire ants include liquid mound drenches, granule baits, or DIY methods like boiling water. Effective fire ant control often requires an approach that combines mound ...

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More than 8.3 million Australians a year will suffer excruciating stings from red fire ants if the invasive pests are allowed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red imported fire ants – known as RIFA – are spreading throughout the southern U.S., and if there are enough nests in an area, ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus, nest in wood and can be destructive to ...

This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. Researchers in the South want people to ...