Understand how to get rid of fire ants using effective baits, mound treatments, and professional options tailored for homeowners.

Fire ant season is here. Discover how to identify mounds, avoid stings, treat bites, and safely eliminate colonies.

Fire ants inflict painful stings and create unsightly mounds in our landscapes. Unfortunately, there is no treatment that will eradicate them from a yard permanently. You will have to control fire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red imported fire ants – known as RIFA – are spreading throughout the southern U.S., and if there are enough nests in an area, ...

Red imported fire ants are an invasive ant species originally from South America. These aggressive ants have been spreading across the southern United States for years and are now found in at least 17 ...

Texas is known for its extreme heat and diverse wildlife, but one of the state’s most persistent pests is also one of its ...

As habitat loss and fragmentation continues, many in the scientific community view landscape corridors as important for connecting habitat fragments to maintain biodiversity. And yet, might those same ...

With an ant killer, you can help prevent these annoying pests from entering your home or overrunning the garden.

SAN ANTONIO – The KSAT garden officially has been invaded, by fire ants. “The ant mounds that pop up are most likely going to be fire ants,” Molly Keck, an entomologist with Texas A&M AgriLife ...

“There have been studies in labs that indicate coffee grounds can have some repellent effect on household ants, at least in ...

SOUTHWEST VA. – Virginia agricultural officials have expanded the state’s red imported fire ant quarantine to include Pittsylvania County, Danville, and Halifax County as warming temperatures ...

Scientists across the South are warning the public about the spread of invasive Asian needle ants, whose painful stings can trigger life threatening allergic reactions and disrupt native ecosystems ...