Fire ant mounds in hay pastures can cause equipment breakdowns when cutting machinery hits tall, hardened mounds. The ants also may consume seeds or seedlings of some forage crops. On the beneficial ...

Fire ants are well established here in Rowan County and some of them like to call your pasture or hayfield home. Whether you are dealing with one mound or 100 mounds in some cases, you need to know ...

WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Fire Ants traditionally were confined to the Gulf States and far south in Tennessee, but they have migrated north in recent years, spreading locally by development, as ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Anyone who has spent much time outdoors in East Texas knows the frustration of fire ants. Whether you’re mowing the yard, walking through a hay meadow or checking fences, ...

These ants are aggressive and will bite. They build huge mounds that kill the vegetation around them, including trees. And a massive infestation of them was recently reported in Holmes County. Here's ...

Virginia has expanded its Imported Fire Ant Quarantine zone to include Petersburg and surrounding areas due to a growing infestation. Imported fire ants, originally from South America, pose risks to ...

How fire ants form their water-resistant life rafts. Video: Courtesy of David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology "Aggressive" fire ants that float on water by linking thousands of their insect bodies ...