Seasonal rhythms shape life in Canberra in manner ins which identify the capital from Australia's warmer coastal cities, and those rhythms reach the behaviour of the ant populations that share the city's residential and commercial areas with its human inhabitants. The shift from Canberra's cold w

There is a specific frustration that features discovering ants marching actively throughout a kitchen area bench at 6 in the early morning, and for Canberra homeowners, this experience is far from unusual. The capital's varied urban landscape, with its thoroughly kept parks, established suburban

Ants are amongst the most effective organisms in the world, and no place is their adaptability more apparent than in a city like Canberra, where the mix of distinct seasonal temperature variation, extensive green areas, and the heat produced by domestic and business buildings develops an environm