Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

Ant colonies are so tightly knit and efficient, they can pass useful knowledge between generations, which some experts believe constitutes a colony ... defenses. Fire ants bite and sting ...

Fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) colonies are organized by one of two different social structures. In monogyne colonies, a large queen accumulates a large amount of body fat, mates with one male, and ...

A frightening new threat has emerged in the wake of Cyclone Alfred - floating fire ants. Footage has emerged of thousands of ...

Taking clear inspiration from classics such as SimAnt and Dungeon Keeper, players will be able to dig through the earth, build tunnels and chambers, hunt for food and raise large colonies.

The gene that underlies a locus determining complex differences between two social forms of fire ants is a homolog of ... and a new colony emerges. By contrast, polygyne queens are smaller and ...

Japan has designated the Argentine ant and the venomous red imported fire ant, both native to South ... ants can inhabit a single nest, enabling a colony to grow at an explosive rate.