A video of fire ants forming 'life rafts' on Queensland floodwaters has gone viral on social media, prompting concerns that ...

we are exceedingly glad to observe from this additional volume that he has now turned his serious attention to the honey ants, for, although the habits of this species were known to be certainly ...

They're 2 to 6 millimetres in length and are coppery-brown in colour. The ants were first detected in Australia in Brisbane in 2001 and it's likely the pest arrived in shipping containers from the US.