Those affected by flooding in southeast Queensland have been called upon to look out and report fire ant nests in their backyard, local parks, beaches or bushland, which are known to create ...

Unlike most ant species, small honey ants are the most active during the cooler months of the year, and they tend to remain deep in their nests throughout the warm summer months. So, you are most ...

Echoing academic research into how ant nests may resemble computer networks - aka the "anternet" - Microtopia portrays these trails as circuits, with logic gates that, say, limit how many ants can ...

But rather than keeping the virus out of the Sunshine State, NSW is trying to keep out another potentially deadly threat — fire ants. Officials from the NSW police and the Department of Primary ...

Colonies of tropical leaf-cutting ants live in underground nests where a fungus grows that feeds them. The ants, in turn, provide the fungus with the freshly-cut leaf fragments it needs for nutrition.