Of the nonnative animals crawling, buzzing and slithering across the American South, very few are officially designated "crazy." The crazy ant is an exception. When a Texas exterminator, Tom Rasberry, ...

News Nov 26, 2025 / 11:27 AM CST Tawny crazy ants have taken over the gulf states and are now encroaching inland, destroying electronics and other species, but a new discovery may provide hope for ...

Rasberry crazy ants (scientifically known as Nylanderia fulva) are one of the more recent and frustrating invasive critters to make their presence known in US gardens, so it makes good sense to arm ...

Research initiated at a UT field station keeps progressing. That is good news for a war on an invasive species. Tawny crazy ant workers tend larvae. Credit: Edward LeBrun/University of Texas at Austin ...

Some invasive ants are driving biologists crazy, but new research into control methods is underway at the lab and in the field. Tag along on a family outing and see how springtime is the ideal season ...

NEW ORLEANS - It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper's metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a ...

Scientists believe an invasive ant species that spews acid from its abdomen has finally met its match after discovering that a naturally occurring fungus kills off a significant number of the ant ...

Are invasive tawny crazy ants in Ohio? According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the ants are limited to the Gulf Coast, as well as the Atlantic coast of Florida and Georgia. They are not in ...

NEW ORLEANS - It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper's metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a ...

Of the nonnative animals crawling, buzzing and slithering across the American South, very few are officially designated “crazy.” The crazy ant is an exception. When a Texas exterminator, Tom Rasberry, ...

They get their name from their erratic movements, especially while foraging, and are native to South America but spread to the southern U.S. in the late 1990s. According to the USDA, tawny crazy ants ...