Floating fire ant piles? Yes. It's a thing especially after big storms that cause flooding like Hurricane Helene has in Southwest Florida. It's another reason to beware of going into the water, beyond ...

KINSTON, NC -- During a flooding event like Hurricane Florence, floodwaters can be full of hazards: sewage, debris, animals and even floating clumps of fire ants. The Kinston Police Department posted ...

Add one more thing to dangers lurking in Texas floodwaters: fire ants. Several social media users have tweeted pictures of floating rafts of fire ants they spotted in Harvey floodwaters. While the ...

Atop the standard dangers of floodwaters - snakes, not being able to see any potential hazards, the force of rushing waters - North Carolina has given people another reason to avoid them: floating ...

Fire ants, an invasive species described as “tiny killers,” have been “taking advantage” of recent wild weather in northeast Australia, forming rafts to move to new areas using the water currents, a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It might sound unbelievable, but residents of Texas’ capitol are reporting fire ants floating on floodwaters, forming living rafts out of their own bodies. On Wednesday morning, one ...

"By the time water covers the mound and the tunnels are flooded, the ants have moved up and out of the nest, locking legs together and forming a floating mass of fire ants, called a raft," Dr. Robert ...

Red fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, with the extreme weather threatening a countrywide spread of the highly invasive species. ...