Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, with the extreme ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In gross but cool news, fire ants are actually dope little engineers. Vishwanath, an environmentalist, was documenting wildlife in ...

Fire ants might be the scourge of southern states like Georgia and Texas, but scientifically, they are endlessly fascinating as an example of collective behavior. A few fire ants spaced well apart ...

Drop a clump of 100,000 fire ants in a pond of water – or flood a huge area of Texas that’s infested with fire ants and drive them out of their nests in large groups. In minutes the clump will flatten ...

This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have been spotted floating on floodwaters through the Texas city and forming rafts using their bodies with residents now reporting the gross behavior.

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. ...

Craig Tovey is Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design at Georgia Institute of Technology Drop a clump of 100,000 fire ants in a ...