As for Argentine ants and fire ants mixing it up, the edge goes to the fiery Texas Terrors, according to Les Greenberg, who heads the fire ant research program at UC Riverside and is co-author of ...

The Argentine ant queen ants one new queen ant for every 120 worker ants. Since the number of eggs laid in a day is 60, the Argentine ants will increase twice as fast as games.

Argentine ant colonies are tricky to eradicate. Each colony has multiple queens. And, at least in California, they’re remarkably tolerant of neighboring Argentine colonies.

Hoping to trigger an ant civil war, UC Irvine scientists are experimenting with a colorless potion that makes bosom-buddy arthropods try to decapitate one another.

The Argentine ant may have met its match in the winter ant, a California native with a secret weapon. ... “They escaped the war zone,” said Brian Whyte, a Ph.D. student in evolutionary biology at UC ...

As such, the Argentine ant is a real threat to California’s biodiversity, and any effort to protect them is, at best, misguided. That said, I agree that using ant stakes is not a good idea.

The Asian-Argentine rivalry is a rare opportunity for researchers to observe an invasion in progress. Scientists at North Carolina State University stumbled on the unfolding ant war several years ago.

The next time you’re outside, look down. Odds are, you might spot one of Earth’s estimated 20 quadrillion ants scurrying around. Depending on where you are, you may detect an Argentine ant.