The invasive pests are small and shiny, dark brown to black in color, and the tips of their antennae and legs are a lighter orange-brown shade. Because other ant species in the eastern U.S ...

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 ...

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 ...

While there's no way to know who will have a reaction to the stings, Suiter says that anyone who carries an Epipen for other stinging insects ... Asian needle ants are black or brown with orangey ...

They'd been collecting different species of harvester ants, "nasty stinging insects ... yellowjacket Fierce black polybia wasp Velvet ant (technically a wasp) Florida harvester ant Tarantula ...

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 ...