Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it ...

If you live in a rural or suburban area in the Southern states, you’ve likely seen a fire ant hill a few times in your life.

This is an Allegheny mound ant in the laboratory. Engineers at the Ohio State University are studying the ant's neck joint, in order to understand the ant's lifting ability. Disclaimer ...