Sicily is on the front line of Europe’s fire ant invasion. If it fails to contain the spread, more countries will be at risk.

Fire ants excel at human assisted spread, which makes any construction or mining supply chain a risk if controls lapse.

A new population of “highly aggressive” red imported fire ants has infested a private property in Montecito, according to Santa Barbara County officials. The ants are capable of biting and stinging ...

Zombies are among us. And these tiny undead creatures are everywhere. In this excerpt from "Rise of the Zombie Bugs" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), author Mindy Weisberger examines the very ...

The invasive red fire ant, or Solenopsis invicta, has been found in Europe for the first time and unless quickly halted could quickly alter the continent's ecosystems, researchers reported Monday.

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

A county official renewed warnings in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday of the dangers of red imported fire ants after new colonies were discovered in Sylmar. The 22 mounds found this week in the ...

Ant larvae metamorphose into adults by pupating. It was assumed that these inert pupae don’t play a role in the wider ant colony, but a team of researchers have found that they actually secrete a ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 68, No. 11 (November 2014), pp. 1859-1870 (12 pages) Ant supercolonies (large networks of interconnected nests) represent the most extreme form of multi-queen ...