Sicily is on the front line of Europe’s fire ant invasion. If it fails to contain the spread, more countries will be at risk.

"Asian needle ants have a potent and painful sting, but they’re not aggressive like fire ants. They usually only sting when ...

Since the red imported fire ant is an invasive species, they have displaced other fire ant species native to Texas such as “Solenopsis geminata” or tropical fire ants. Oktavianus Mulyadi Pexels As the ...

Warnings of a potentially dangerous invasive ant have popped up on news sites and social media this week. You’d be forgiven for thinking a new threat had arrived. But this insect, the Asian needle ant ...

An invasive ant species native to East Asia has spread to every corner of North Carolina, and it can cause health and ...

Japan is set to deploy beagles to sniff out venomous fire ants at ports around the country. Beagles have been chosen for the ...

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 ...

The Guam Department of Agriculture is developing a plan to keep little fire ants out of a conservation forest along Cross ...

Fire ant stings are nasty. Lesions usually occur on the lower extremities after the disruption of a nest, causing a large number of ants to swarm and attack. The most common presentation is a wheal ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young children who have severe allergic reactions to stings from fire ants can be desensitized in a one-day "rush" protocol, according to a new report. There's a risk of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that many children in the southeastern United States are stung by fire ants, as evidenced by signs of an immune system reaction to the fire ant venom.