New research is indicating that invasive foreign ants that have hitched rides on global imports are slowly becoming the dominant species in the state of Florida. Populations of non-native leaf-litter ...

Floridians already have to worry about Burmese pythons, cane toads and Argentine tegu lizards … do we have to worry about invasive venomous ants now, too? Asian needle ants have been slowly spreading ...

The study tracked leaf-litter ant abundance from 1965 to 2019. Nonnative ants represented 30% of the 177 ground-dwelling species detected in surveys across the state in later years, the team reports.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new look at decades of data from museum collections and surveys of leaf-litter ants in Florida reveals a steady decline in native ants and simultaneous increase in nonnative ants – ...