Generally, humans try to avoid getting stung by insects. However, in the name of science, the betterment of humanity, and pure curiosity, there are brave people out there who willingly subject themselves to the business end...

How Fire Ants Took Over America



Fire ants are several species of ants in the genus Solenopsis, which includes over 200 species. Solenopsis are stinging ants, and most of their common names reflect this, for example, ginger...

A song of ants and fire and ant-decapitating flies.

Invasive animals are often most abundant in habitats impacted by humans, especially man-made habitats, such as roadsides, suburban and urban developments, and intensive agricultural activity. Understanding why this is true may reveal...

On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote gets attacked by a swarm of FIRE ANTS! Why? Well ever since Coyote was was stung by a colony of Harvester Ants to prove whether ants bite or sting many of you wanted to know how those stings...

Invasive animals are often most abundant in habitats impacted by humans, especially man-made habitats, such as roadsides, suburban and urban developments, and areas of intensive agricultural activity. Understanding why this...

Close Up - Fire ants in ant colony scurrying about /

Ants move fast over mud nest

ant working together

red ants walking on green mango

Red ants, Crematogaster sp, collecting sap on branch, Botswana, Africa

CLEAN: Exterior shots of Red Ants, dressed in protective red suits, and security guards wearing riot gear moving into a township and dismantle corrugated iron and wooden shacks on July 5, 2001 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

CLEAN: Exterior shots of Red Ants, dressed in protective red suits, and police officers wearing riot gear moving into a township and dismantle corrugated iron and wooden shacks on July 5, 2001 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Caterpillar and ant fighting on branch, Botswana, Africa

Red ant track shot

Extreme Close Up - Fire ant stinging human skin /

Close Up - Fire ant stings human skin and leaves behind swollen red bump /

Red Forest / Wood Ants - life of the huge anthill in a forest

Colony of red ants.

Red Forest / Wood Ants - life of the huge anthill in a forest

Ants are guarding their nest

Red Ants

Red ants scurry over a rock.

ant communicate to the other