Biologist Edward LeBrun is weaponizing a natural pathogen to use as a biocontrol for tawny crazy ants from South America that have become prevalent in the southeastern US. Over the past 15 years or so ...

The hundreds of elementary and middle school students who visited Estero Llano Grande State Park in the Rio Grande Valley had to learn something new upon arrival: the crazy ant stomp. Javier DeLeon ...

In a recent study, my colleagues and I discovered micronutrients in the ground can control populations of invasive crazy ants (Nylanderia fulva). Tawny crazy ants – named for their fast, erratic ...

The invasive insect has been difficult to kill because infected ants self-isolate, but researchers may have found a solution.

After more than a decade, the terrorizing reign of the yellow crazy ant is over on the Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. The ...

The founder of outdoor ministry Kids Outdoor Zone said about three years ago he noticed tiny ants all over his property. “There’s a reason they call them crazy ants, because they drive you crazy,” ...

So devastating is this fungal pathogen to invasive crazy ants that it sometimes leads to the extinction of local populations. Reading time 4 minutes Invasive tawny crazy ants are spreading wildly in ...

University of Florida researchers are still working on strategies for controlling crazy ants found so far in 20 Florida counties, but they're offering some preliminary advice.The ants are known for ...

There’s an arms race going on right now between two species of invading ants, the tawny crazy ant and the fire ant. These arch-rivals are currently warring for dominance in the southern U.S., but it ...

Yellow crazy ants are seen in a bait testing efficacy trial at the Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in December 2015. An invasive species, the yellow crazy ant has been eradicated from the ...

It was first spotted in Houston. But then so many strange phenomena are. Now it's heading your way, regardless of where you might be keeping safe in these excitable United States. It might seem to you ...