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Thousands of fire ants have been spotted floating on floodwaters through the Texas city and forming rafts using their bodies ...
Believe it or not, viewers have submitted videos of piles of red ants on what appears to be a floating raft made of insects.
HOUSTON — Easter is this Sunday and if your kids are heading out on an Easter egg hunt, here’s something to watch out for – fire ants! We’re just now getting into the peak fire ant season ...
Red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta Buren and S. richteri Forel) are a species native to South America that were accidentally introduced to the United States decades ago, according to the U ...
Over the past century, red fire ants have spread throughout much of the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, China and Australia. Last year, they were spotted in Europe for the first time.
LSU AgCenter entomologist Aaron Ashbrook recommends a fire ant strategy called the Texas two-step. Borrowing its name from the country-western dance, this method developed by scientists at Texas A ...
This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have been spotted floating on floodwaters through the Texas city and forming rafts using their bodies with residents now reporting the gross ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — It might sound unbelievable, but viewers are sending in videos of fire ants floating on floodwaters, forming living rafts out of their own bodies. On Wednesday morning, a KXAN ...