This is a photograph of a Solenopsis invicta fire ant queen (large), five workers (smaller), one larva (whiteish) on a subset of the DNA sequence of their social chromosome. Disclaimer ...

The National Fire Ant Eradication Program (NFAEP) has confirmed the recent fire ant detection was at Clunes with several live queen fire ants and worker ants – but not nests – that were found in a ...

Their mother, the queen, roams around the nest while laying ... Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

A three-year-old colony can hold as many as 100,000 fire ants and a mature queen can lay up to 5,000 eggs per day. In recent decades, fire ants have spread across the US, China, Taiwan ...

Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit a single ... The pheromone also showed strong effects on red imported fire ants. “The pheromone, which is ...