Where their activity has loosened plants, firm the plants back into the soil and water well. Good watering tends to discourage ants, as they prefer dry conditions. Ant nests (hills) can be broken up ...

An experiment that pitted ants against competitors from another nest has shown that these insects remembered the negative experiences they had during these encounters. Ants never cease to amaze us.

Deadly fire ants have breached the Sunshine Coast biosecurity zone, with six nests found at a building site, prompting calls for more federal funding to thwart the pests’ march across the state.

Video released by the National Fire Ant Eradication Program shows how quickly the world's worst invasive pests swarm to protect their nests. House painter Joel Booker was lucky not to have been ...

In field trials, the introduction of SINV-3 into fire ant nests led to a remarkable decrease in both the number of nests and their sizes over time. Specifically, nests treated with SINV-3 showed a ...