Amazing new footage captures the moment when thousands of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) create a life-saving raft by interlocking their limbs and mandibles. The clip, from National Geographic's ...

Fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters across storm-ravaged Australia, aiding the spread of one of the world's most invasive species. Considered a super pest, fire ants can cause ...

When flooding hits a region where fire ants live, their survival response is to latch together to form a buoyant "raft" that floats and keeps the colony united. Think of it like a condensed ...

A fire ant ‘raft’ in the Logan River this week. Picture: Courtesy Invasive Species Council “If we have another flood anytime soon, the spread of fire ants will be catastrophic downstream ...