Read about the other icons that have defined Texas since 1973. When Solenopsis invicta, a.k.a. the red imported fire ant, was first identified in East Texas, in the seventies, stakes were high.

LSU AgCenter entomologist Aaron Ashbrook recommends a strategy called the Texas two-step ... as red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), they are native to tropical central South America ...

Read full article: Saharan dust returns to Central Florida ... been a lot of research done on fire ants and how they create their own life rafts. A report by a Texas A&M professor focusing ...

they have displaced other fire ant species native to Texas such as “Solenopsis geminata” or tropical fire ants. Oktavianus Mulyadi Pexels As the fall weather cools things down in North Texas ...

As the warmer weather brings people outdoors across Houston, fire ants are waiting. Out of the 210 species of ants in Texas, the fire ant is the one singled out as a serious nuisance to humans ...

EAST TEXAS - Just last week, I kneeled down to get a closer look at a weed and put my knee squarely in a fire ant mound. I swatted my pants leg and got all of them off without getting stung. It was a ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - I had a phone call a couple of days ago from a gentleman that wanted to know how he could get rid of all the fire ants on his acreage. “Acreage” implied quite a large ...

Fire ants wander aimlessly away from the mound ... The first species has traveled all the way from Central and South Texas to the Oklahoma border. This year, UT researchers will add colonies ...

"Fire ants are sensitive to vibration or movement and tend to sting when the object they are on moves," according to the Texas Imported Fire Ant Research and Management Project website.