The most common fire ant species, the red invaders are a mix of lots of worker ants and one or several queens per colony. Workers only live a few months at most, while a queen ant − which can lay up ...

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

Targeted insecticides can be applied to individual mounds to eliminate the queen ant ... are generally ineffective in eradicating fire ant colonies. They're uninvited guests that can quickly ...

Their mother, the queen, roams around ... Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants ...

Spring weather is here to stay bringing a pesky, stinging insect with it. See what we know about the fire ant and how to ...

Advion Fire Ant Bait can kill a fire ant colony within a couple of days, and you can spread it over a yard for seasonal management. If you don’t properly handle an infestation, you can split the ...

Considering a mature colony can include up to 400,000 worker ants, a queen can lay up to 1,000 eggs a day ... Mother Nature has also thrown a new wrinkle into the mix − a new "super" ant that's a ...

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

Stepping on a fire ant hill, sometimes referred to ... products that call the ants and even target the queen to ensure that the entire colony is killed. These products typically include acephate ...

The most common fire ant species, the red invaders are a mix of lots of worker ants and one or several queens per colony. Workers only live a few months at most, while a queen ant − which can ...

As the warmth of spring creeps in, so too does the relentless return of the pesky ant ... back to the colony. This allows the ants to share the bait with the queen and the rest of the colony ...