Tawny crazy ants on a thin slice of sausage after a few minutes at a heavily infested site (Photo Credit: UF/IFAS) (University of Florida Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences) A longtime ...

A species of invasive ants known for its powerful jaw and its ability to fling itself in the air is spreading in Florida and other parts of the United States, according to the Daily Mail.

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 ...

To set the stage, Formica archboldi is a species of ant which resides in upper Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Its natural enemy is the trap jaw ant, that being its common name. F. archboldi doesn ...

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 ...

Florida is teeming with alligators, snakes, jellyfish, sharks and countless other things that could kill you. But there are smaller threats to avoid as well. A spider, mosquito or ant bite or a ...

Entomologists have documented a sharp drop in fire ant mounds, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The fire ant, which inflicted its first stinging bite on a Floridian ankle sometime in the ...

Fire ants are one of the leading causes of low quail numbers in Florida and throughout the Southeast, according to Bill Giuliano, assistant professor with the University of Florida's Institute of ...