Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are 2.5 million ants for every person on Earth — and sometimes it seems like they’re all trying to break into your kitchen.

If you’re like me and enjoy going out to work in the garden, you’ve been putting in some hours to get your landscape and vegetable gardens ready for the growing season. If, also like me, you’ve ...

Targeted insecticides can be applied to individual mounds to eliminate the queen ant. For widespread infestations, broadcast pesticides offer a broader solution but come with safety precautions.

Gardeners preparing summer vegetable gardens may find their plots already teeming with life, but not the kind they would like to see. Fire ants are common in yards, flowerbeds, playgrounds and gardens ...

A hill of red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) at the Texas A&M AgriLife Center in Dallas. Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer Grits won't work. Neither will cornmeal or Malt-O-Meal. And for ...