Since fire ants first came to the United States in the early 20th century, researchers have searched for ways to control ...

Ants are a nuisance indoors, especially in kitchens. Outdoors, they contribute to plant damage by enabling destructive insects like aphids and whiteflies. Diatomaceous earth is an organic compound ...

ORLANDO, March 22, 2024 – UCF Biology Professor Joshua King has won the 2023 Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize and $100,000 for an innovation he created to control a ubiquitous pest — fire ants. His ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 3, 2021) Research published this summer in the journal iScience outlines a promising, pesticide-free approach to manage non-native fire ants that have invaded many coastal ...

The thought of spiders lurking in the basements, attics and dark corners of their homes is unpleasant to most people; for some, it is terrifying. Homeowners seeking to get rid of these creepy crawlers ...

You know how it goes: you’re in your kitchen, happily chopping veggies for that night’s meal, when an ant comes wandering by to check out the menu. Or you turn on the light in the bathroom and spot a ...

This is the time of the year that ants invade our kitchens to carry off all the groceries they can. The ants at our house have begun their invasion, and recently we woke up with so many of them on the ...

Living in the mountains presents its own unique set of hazards. One of those hazards is carpenter ants. In the Spring when they emerge from their nests; usually dead tree stumps or rotting wood which ...