Fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters across storm-ravaged Australia, aiding the spread of one of the world's most invasive species. Considered a super pest, fire ants can cause ...

As someone interested in ecology and the environment, I commenced an in-depth study of fire ants many years before fire ants appeared in Australia. Once fire ants appeared in Australia, I formed the ...

Farmers are calling for a state border crackdown to stop the spread of dangerous fire ants into northern New ... and have no natural predators in Australia. It's feared they could cause tens ...

Australia’s native meat ants are struggling. Invasive species of foreign ants have a foothold on the continent, and are increasingly outcompeting their native rivals for territory. Beyond simple ...

Much like the cane toad, whose population explosion disrupted the local ecosystem upon introduction in Australia, the Argentine ants began to wreak havoc once they reached the U.S. The Argentine ...

“Yesterday, for example, I got really badly bitten by like ants, mosquitoes, something. I’m allergic, I guess. “They flared up and swelled up really a lot. Someone was, like, giving me this ...

Emma Raducanu has become the latest victim of Australia’s famously hostile wildlife – although it was not spiders or snakes ...

The National Fire Ant Eradication Program (NFAEP) – which aims to eradicate the pest from Australia by 2032 – and the Queensland-based lawn turf supplier are further investigating why the ...