PROFESSOR MICHAEL GOODISMAN, GEORGIA TECH ... They can fly and float in a living raft. GRAEME DUDGEON, FIRE ANT ERADICATION PROGRAM: They have impact on the on the environment, on native ...

A woman died this summer in Georgia after stepping in a fire ant bed and suffering a severe ... Because of their ability to form a raft, they are generally less affected by heavy rains, Yang ...

“In order to survive these phenomena, fire ants build rafts in which all individuals cluster together; therefore, the density of the raft is high. According to previous studies, when they are in ...

If you wade into this ant raft nightmare ... A researcher at Georgia Tech drops a ball of fire ants into the water. It only takes them two minutes to assemble. This ability has helped red ...

André Magyar courtesy of Georgia Institute of Technology Fire ants in the Georgia Tech experiments start forming a raft thanks to the “Cheerios effect.” “I thought that when two ants ...

Fire ants might be the scourge of southern states like Georgia and Texas ... other's bodies with their mandibles and claws until a flat raft-like structure forms. Each ant behaves like an ...

Ko, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Princeton University, worked on the fire ant raft studies with mechanical engineering professor David Hu while completing his PhD at Georgia Tech.

A fire ant's exoskeleton naturally repels water, and its rough texture traps air bubbles. Tightly knit ant bodies can, therefore, create a buoyant, water-resistant foundation for a floating raft ...

Fire ants also swarm, but with a slightly different form. They will clump into a floating raft when they encounter ... a mechanical engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology who wasn’t ...

The NHC said inland portions of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia ... of the raft from drowning. It said the ants can remain on these islands for weeks, so "beware near floodwaters." Fire ant islands ...

Hua from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S. found that fire ants, when present in ... is achieved by trapping of ants at the raft edge by their neighbours. The researchers used liquid ...