What's worse than an ant bite? A fire ant bite. Fire ants, as their name might suggest, are reddish insects with stingers and venom pouches that they may use to attack areas of exposed skin, according ...

PALM BAY, TONY ATKINS WESH TWO NEWS, AN ORANGE COUNTY WOMAN IS FACING CHARGES OF NEGLECT AFTER DETECTIVES SAY SHE DID NOT PROPERLY CARE FOR HER ELDERLY UNCLE, 41 YEAR OLD LATOYA YOUNG IS IN JAIL ...

Tawny crazy ants are an invasive species in Florida, forming supercolonies and displacing native wildlife. They are attracted to electrical equipment and can make yards uninhabitable. These ants bite, ...

Asian needle ant stings are less painful than bee stings and comparable to a mosquito bite. The risk of anaphylactic shock from a needle ant sting is similar to that of bees or wasps. A 2019 study ...

Red imported fire ants cause significant economic damage and pose health risks. Climate change, urban sprawl, and flooding are exacerbating the fire ant problem in Florida. Scientists are exploring ...

Like battlefield medics, Florida carpenter ants are the first known animal to triage wounds and adapt treatments. In a first, researchers have observed that a species of Florida carpenter ant ...

Suspected China-aligned actors are running a new “Fire Ant” espionage campaign, active since early 2025, that targets VMWare ESXi, vCenter servers, and F5 appliances to achieve stealthy ...

As summer temperatures rise across South Carolina, so does activity from one of the season’s smallest and most persistent pests: ants. Whether swarming your picnic table, creeping along kitchen ...

They get their name from their erratic movements, especially while foraging, and are native to South America but spread to the southern U.S. in the late 1990s. According to the USDA, tawny crazy ants ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Residents of Texas’s capital are reporting fire ants floating on floodwaters, forming living rafts out of their own bodies. On Wednesday morning, one Austinite shared video of one such ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It might sound unbelievable, but viewers are sending in videos of fire ants floating on floodwaters, forming living rafts out of their own bodies. On Wednesday morning, a KXAN viewer ...