AUSTIN, Texas, May 12 (UPI) -- Four species of tiny flies that lay eggs in fire ants have been imported into Texas in an effort to reduce the numbers of the stinging invaders.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Scientists say they've discovered U.S. fence lizards in the southeastern United States are evolving to avoid potentially fatal attacks by fire ants.
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Fire ants have infested several parts of Virginia's South Hampton Roads, the state Department of Agriculture said.
GEORGETOWN, Malaysia, March 12 (UPI) -- A group of Malaysian Buddhist monks, who are forbidden from harming living creatures, are seeking help with a fire ant infestation.
SANTA ANA, Calif., April 24 (UPI) -- Fire ants are reappearing in California's Orange County the result, say some critics, of the state ending its fire ant eradication funding in 2003.
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes a tiny fly imported from Brazil will reduce the numbers of an earlier Brazilian import, the fire ant.
PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Unusually wet weather in Florida is driving fire ants to seek higher ground, where the people are.
LONDON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The sister of a terminally ill British woman says she was shocked to find ants on her hospital bed and floating in her tea in a bedside cup.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas, May 7 (UPI) -- Scientists have detected a microbe that could become a weapon against the invasion of fire ants across the southern United States.
MIAMI, March 13 (UPI) -- Federal scientists are unleashing "decapitating phorid flies" in an effort to get rid of fire ants in south Florida and throughout the South. The South American
