The New Mexico Department of Agriculture is moving to end a 27-year-old federal quarantine in Doña Ana County for red imported fire ants. These are not the common variety that show up around yards and ...

House painter Joel Booker was lucky not to have been attacked by red imported fire ants at the site of Queensland's latest fire ant outbreak. He repeatedly, unknowingly, walked past nests at a ...

Department of Primary Industries red fire ant map shows the species’ spread through southeast Queensland. Border patrols, CCTV detection cameras and sniffer dogs have also been used in the ...

A strange invader is marching across the United States, born of two different species. Red fire ants and black fire ants have both been imported to the US, and now they’ve teamed up to create a ...