Red ants, often referred to as fire ants, are generally more aggressive than black ants. Fire ants can grow up to ¼ inch long and are notorious for their defensive behaviour when their nests are ...

Red imported fire ants are an invasive ant species originally from South America. These aggressive ants have been spreading ...

Virginia's Imported Fire Ant Quarantine was expanded Wednesday to include Chesterfield and the Tri-Cities after the invasive ...

A teacher at an Anahola public charter school had her students brainstorm on curbing the spread of the invasive species. It's ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) announces that Virginia’s Imported Fire Ant Quarantine ...

Three species of fire ants have been found in North Carolina: red imported fire ants, black fire ants, and hybrid fire ants. Red imported fire ants are the most common fire ant species in North ...

Why: Like you, an ant won’t eat food that is bigger or the same size as it is in one meal. Plus do the math. Even if it did work your fire ant colony has millions of ants. At one grit per ant ...

As the warmth of spring creeps in, so too does the relentless return of the pesky ant, with the fire ant leading the charge, bringing chaos and an unwelcome sting to every corner they invade.

Hybrid fire ants, well established in East Tennessee and parts of Kentucky and North Carolina, are now infiltrating Southwest Virginia. Imported red and black fire ants first appeared in Virginia ...

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