These invasive pests can be a thing of the past. Whether you have dodged their mounds while walking around your yard or endured a painful sting, you know how pesky and dangerous fire ants can be to ...

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 ...

As the warmer weather brings people outdoors across Houston, fire ants are waiting. Out of the 210 species of ants in Texas, the fire ant is the one singled out as a serious nuisance to humans, ...

Ouch! You were digging in your yard to plant, and you just felt a sting delivered courtesy of a fire ant. You may think of fire ants as just one type of ant capable of such a sting, but the truth is ...

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 ...

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 ...