- Argentine ants - they benefited from this year's balmy spring and appeared in record numbers.

In its introduced range, the Argentine ant often displaces most or all native ants.

So he pulled together a team of scientists and students to study the tiny Argentine ants, which are about a fifth of an inch long.

There are Argentine ants scurrying along cracks in sidewalks on campus.

And there are Argentine ants swarming by the elevator on the ground floor of the biology building.

All the functions are totally lost when Argentine ants move in.

Friends and neighbors often ask the researchers how to deal with Argentine ants in their homes.

Argentine ants, a recent invader, do not disperse even small seeds.

Along with trying to avoid such predators they are also in danger because of the exotic Argentine ants.

This project studies and tracks the Argentine ants, an invasive species.