Whether you have dodged their mounds while walking around your yard or endured a painful sting, you know how pesky and dangerous fire ants can be to humans, pets, and gardens. Known as red imported ...

Sprinkle grits around the mound. Readers say: The ants will eat them, the grit will expand, and the ant will die. Chance this works: 1 in a very big number. Why: Like you, an ant won’t eat food that ...

Fire ants inflict painful stings and create unsightly mounds in our landscapes. Unfortunately, there is no treatment that will eradicate them from a yard permanently. You will have to control fire ...

A spilled container of sugar with fire ants crawling in and out of it - RHJPhtotos/Shutterstock Ants can be a real pesky problem in and around the home. Not only are they inconvenient visitors, but ...

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, ...

As the warmth of spring creeps in, so too does the relentless return of the pesky ant, with the fire ant leading the charge, bringing chaos and an unwelcome sting to every corner they invade. Alabama ...

Sprinkle the food-grade DE outside around the perimeter of your home. You can also safely sprinkle it inside where you see the ants -- along baseboards especially. Do not wet the DE or it will not ...

This kind of bites: Climate change is making fire ants an increasingly hot topic in Florida these days. But our efforts to tame them may only be scratching the surface. Red imported fire ants rank ...

While both fire ants and red ants are red in color, they are not interchangeable. One major difference between them is the pain they cause. Fire ants are infamous for their painful, fiery sting, which ...