Tawny crazy ants are an invasive species in Florida, forming supercolonies and displacing native wildlife. They are attracted to electrical equipment and can make yards uninhabitable. These ants bite, ...

Read full article: Florida ‘Skunk Ape’ reported across the state. Here’s where it’s been sighted Florida is home to creatures ranging from creepy to downright deadly Tawny crazy ants on a thin slice ...

New research is indicating that invasive foreign ants that have hitched rides on global imports are slowly becoming the dominant species in the state of Florida. Populations of non-native leaf-litter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Noticing more of those tiny ants popping up in your house lately? Some call them ghost ants. Others refer to them as sugar ants.

Ants in Florida perform life-saving surgery on their peers, scientists have discovered. They are only the second animal in the world known to do this — along with humans. The researchers found that ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new look at decades of data from museum collections and surveys of leaf-litter ants in Florida reveals a steady decline in native ants and simultaneous increase in nonnative ants – ...

Lionfish. Burmese pythons. Rock pythons. Giants snails. Tegu lizards. All weird animals in Florida that come from elsewhere are either freaky as hell or dangerous or both. And all are wreaking havoc ...

OVER TIME FOR THESE FINAL TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL. ALL RIGHT SANDRA THANK YOU. WELL SOUTH FLORIDA SUMMERS THEY BRING THE HEAT THE RAIN AND THOSE PESKY INSECTS. ALL THIS WEEK STEVEN IS TAKING A LOOK AT HOW ...

Florida harvester ants move and construct a similar subterranean nest about once a year, according to a study published November 19, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Walter Tschinkel from ...