This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have been spotted floating on floodwaters through the Texas city and forming rafts using their bodies with residents now reporting the gross behavior.

(CNN) — Red fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, with the extreme weather threatening a countrywide spread of the highly invasive ...

A video tweeted out by the university’s entomology department shows the fire ants creating an ant raft at UF’s Natural Area Teaching Laboratory. An ant raft is a mechanism used by ants to avoid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire ants are forming rafts out of their own bodies in Texas floodwaters. This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have ...