What's worse than an ant bite? A fire ant bite. Fire ants, as their name might suggest, are reddish insects with stingers and venom pouches that they may use to attack areas of exposed skin, according ...
Fire ant stings are nasty. Lesions usually occur on the lower extremities after the disruption of a nest, causing a large number of ants to swarm and attack. The most common presentation is a wheal ...
Ant bites are common and, while occasionally painful, are rarely severe. There are several types of ants in the United States that bite, including fire ants, harvester ants, carpenter ants, and field ...
You can use anti-itch creams and antihistamines to help treat bug bites and stings at home. Identifying the type of bite or sting is important for choosing the best treatment. Insect repellents, such ...
Jill Zinsmeyer came to Austin for love, but Austin didn't love her. Living in Napa Valley, Calif., before the move, Zinsmeyer hadn't come into contact with such things as fire ants and the small ...
For the record, ant bites aren’t as common as you might think. “All ants can bite but they rarely do unless harassed,” says Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, Ph.D., associate director of community & urban ...
Conjoint Associate Professor in clinical pharmacology and toxicology, St Vincent’s Healthcare Clinical Campus, UNSW Sydney Red imported fire ants are a particularly nasty type of ant because they are ...
CNN) — The number of people stung by red fire ants in Australia has increased significantly in past weeks, with 23 people requiring hospital treatment since the beginning of March, according to ...