In gross but cool news, fire ants are actually dope little engineers. Vishwanath, an environmentalist, was documenting wildlife in the Madurai district of the Tamil Nadu state in India when he ...

Red fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, with the extreme weather threatening a countrywide spread of the highly invasive species. ...

A band of brave insects was spotted navigating floodwaters near Charleston, South Carolina. The ants apparently use jaws, claws and sticky stuff on their legs to form life rafts. Their exteriors are ...

With the tremendous amount of water that was dropped on the Houston area, flooding was expected. With flooding comes the problem of various "critters" trying to find safe dry ground and fire ants are ...

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HOUSTON – Fire ants, as their colonies begin to flood, can join feet or tarsi to form water rafts, and they are more aggressive once in the floating formation, according to Texas A&M AgriLife ...

LEAGUE CITY, Texas – We saw them during Harvey and pretty much every other major flood event in the Houston area, but seeing piles of floating fire ants never ceases to be amazing. The City of League ...