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

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it ...

Fire ants, a native of South America, first invaded the United States in the 1930s, and have spread to other parts of the world in this century, including Australia, China and Taiwan. In Japan ...

A new twist has emerged in UVA’s ongoing research on the link between the lone star tick and an allergy to red meat: In Texas and other Gulf states where the invasive fire ant is common, the allergy ...

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However, if the fire ants just keep coming back or if there are large colonies around your home, you may want to call in a ...

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South America, as “invasive alien species.” Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of ...