The stinging ants, fire ants, can be red fire ants, black fire ants. They sting. They actually bite with their jaws and hang onto the skin as a pivot, and then swing around and sting multiple times.

The Asian needle ant, which, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has been in the southeastern U.S. for about 100 years, can cause anaphylaxis in humans. The invasive pests ...

reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The fire ant, which inflicted its first stinging bite on a Floridian ankle sometime in the 1930s, ruled the state's back yards with the kind of vicious ...

Fire ants have methodically established themselves in the southeast, from Texas along the gulf coast, around Florida and up the ... years after the black imported fire ant was documented in ...

The Florida State University myrmecologist — a biologist who specializes in ants — has spent 35 years studying red imported fire ants, aggressive stinging insects that most Southerners ...