Presumably, horned lizards from the Southwest were released in areas of the Southeast ecologically similar to their native ...

In today’s StarNews, Gareth does a great job explaining how fire ants got to North Carolina in the first place and the ...

Three species of fire ants have been found in North Carolina: red imported fire ants, black fire ants, and hybrid fire ants.

“I have done field trials testing if coffee grounds kill red imported fire ants and found that ... but very toxic to ants if ...

They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus ... For example, ants have a variety of biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting with a venom called solenopsin. They can also survive floods by ...

Colonies of fire ants were thriving in glass-fronted cases, and the air was ripe with the smell of the preserved frogs the ants were eating. My prosthetic left arm dominated the spare bedroom ...