With Queensland's wet season ramping up for another year, experts say now is the time to be aware of the dangers and keep an ...

An enormous “murder” hornet whose sting has been compared with having a hot nail driven into your flesh. An alga called “rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red imported fire ants – known as RIFA – are spreading throughout the southern U.S., and if there are enough nests in an area, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Shutterstock / AOKSANG STUDIO Credit: Shutterstock / AOKSANG STUDIO If you live in a warm climate, you've likely had at ...

Treatment on export-certified organic farms was paused in August 2025 after genetically modified ingredients were discovered ...

Fire ants are a pest, and their bites can be deadly to humans and animals.

The review will examine Australia’s biosecurity settings after a nest of the invasive ants was discovered at a logistics site ...

A cytogenetic study of the Brazilian fire ant Solenopsis saevissima reveals naturally occurring polyploid cells with ...

Described by the Invasive Species Council as one of the world’s “super pests,” a colony of red fire ants was discovered in a shipyard at the Enfield Intermodal Logistics Center in Strathfield.

Biosecurity weaknesses exposed by a recent outbreak of deadly red imported fire ants in Sydney’s inner west will be ...

Fire ants discovered in Sydney have triggered a biosecurity crackdown, with a 2km control zone set to cover parts of 10 ...

NSW has introduced a fire ant control order around Enfield, targeting movements of specified high-risk carrier materials from ...