"Ants are one of the hot topics with our company," said Joey Sims, owner of the company, Sims Pest Control. "People go away on vacation and when they return, their kitchens may be wrapped up in ants.

"It's a case where they (ants) are causing a vertebrate to go extinct," Ward said. ---- For more information about Argentine ants, visit the University of California at Davis Web site at Habitat ...

So when she returned home to find swarms of ants in her kitchen, she was livid. “There were no crumbs to be had,” she said. She’d never seen ants there before, and had not expected to ...

Ants use an internal pedometer to find their way home without getting sidetracked, a new study reports. Desert ants on foraging expeditions use celestial cues to orient themselves in the homeward ...

“Ants Go Marching” has long been considered a children’s song, known to teach kids counting and math, but its origins date back to the Civil War. Though the original tune was born from grim ...

Why do ants go indoors when it rains? These insects tend to go inside humans’ homes to stay safe. Ants want to shelter from the pounding raindrops, but their underground colonies can get flooded.

With the right pesticide and some intervention tricks, you can get ants out of your home — and make them stay out — this spring and summer. The News & Observer spoke with Sydney Crawley ...

Compared to ants, that is a mediocre milestone. Researchers have made the most thorough assessment to date of the global population of ants - insects that have colonized almost everywhere on the ...