After moving into a pre-war building a few years ago I became very familiar with a common pest problem: ants. No amount of ...

Despite recent rain events, hordes of ants have inundated houses across South Australia's Riverland. The uptick in the common pest has been attributed to long stretches of dry weather across the ...

Why Are Some Frogs Poisonous?... A fire ant nest has been spotted at one of Australia’s most iconic World Heritage rainforests, sparking concerns about the potential threat posed to the region’s ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions. By Ari Daniel Ari Daniel previously reported on a tropical ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Right now, Australia is undertaking the world's largest removal of invasive ants. The goal: eradicate fire ants (Solenopsis invicta). These aggressive South American ants ...

Nigel Andrew is an editor of Austral Ecology and subject editor (Zoology) for PeerJ. He played no part in the double-blind peer-review process of the Austral Ecology research paper this article draws ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right now, Australia is undertaking the world’s largest removal of invasive ants. The goal: eradicate fire ants (Solenopsis ...

Israel’s military said Monday there was no reason to launch a ground invasion of Lebanon “imminently” after an overnight attack from Lebanese armed group Hezbollah prompted Israel to retaliate with ...

Israel's military said on Monday there was no reason to launch a ground invasion of Lebanon "imminently", following exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah overnight. "There is nothing on the ...

After a five-year effort, the U.S. Army on Okinawa said it has eradicated an invasive ant species at its port in the island prefecture’s capital city. The browsing ant — Lepisiota frauenfeldi — is ...

Common air pollutants like ozone and nitric oxide can change the way ants smell, prompting their nest-mates to attack them as if they were intruders. Ants recognise their comrades by scent, and when ...

The color drained from Scott Fisher’s face when a member of the Maui Invasive Species Committee told him a little red fire ant had been found at Waihe‘e Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge on the island ...