New research is indicating that invasive foreign ants that have hitched rides on global imports are slowly becoming the dominant species in the state of Florida. Populations of non-native leaf-litter ...

If you’re a Floridian, you know that the Sunshine State isn’t just full of sunshine and beaches, it’s also full of bugs, critters and pests, especially in the heat of the summer. Excel Pest Services, ...

Noticing more of those tiny ants popping up in your house lately? Some call them ghost ants. Others refer to them as sugar ants. More on their actual name later. No matter what they are called, most ...

Scientists are taking a closer look at a species of ant in Florida that decorates its nest with the skulls of other ants it has killed. As if that wasn't macabre enough, they have now discovered it ...

Add Formica archboldi ants to the rotating cast of Florida creatures haunting your nightmares. The state’s most metal ant tricks a powerful species known as trap-jaw ants by chemically mimicking them ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new look at decades of data from museum collections and surveys of leaf-litter ants in Florida reveals a steady decline in native ants and simultaneous increase in nonnative ants – ...

This won’t be a festive column despite the season. I usually try to foster joy and goodwill with my words right about now, and the subject of ants which line their nests with the heads of their ...

The nests of Florida ants called Formica archboldi are adorned with the carcasses of their enemies — namely, the heads of other species known as trap-jaw ants. How Formica archboldi acquire these ...

OVER TIME FOR THESE FINAL TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL. ALL RIGHT SANDRA THANK YOU. WELL SOUTH FLORIDA SUMMERS THEY BRING THE HEAT THE RAIN AND THOSE PESKY INSECTS. ALL THIS WEEK STEVEN IS TAKING A LOOK AT HOW ...

Researchers have found colonies of tropical fire ants, native to Florida and coastal Georgia, that thrive with multiple queens and in close proximity to single-queen colonies of the same species. In ...