If you look around, you will see lots of fire ant mounds popping up in yards and elsewhere. The recent rainfall has been very good for fire ants. With the ...

Sprinkle grits around the mound. Readers say: The ants will eat them, the grit will expand, and the ant will die.

As the warmer weather brings people outdoors across Houston, fire ants are waiting. Out of the 210 species of ants in Texas, ...

Did you know an aggressive crossbreed ant is invading Virginia? They are called hybrid fire ants, which are a mix of black fire ants and red fire ants, and they originated from South America. The ...

Three species of fire ants have been found in North Carolina: red imported fire ants, black fire ants, and hybrid fire ants. Red imported fire ants are the most common fire ant species in North ...

Invasive fire ants, first arriving in the U.S. in 1918, have spread throughout the Southeast, causing problems for residents and farmers. Adding to the problem, red and black fire ants are ...

Pest control companies in the Triangle are already getting calls for complaints of fire ants. We tagged along with Will Adkins from Pest and Termite Consultants to a house in Knightdale.