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

There is a particular disappointment that includes discovering ants marching actively throughout a cooking area bench at six in the morning, and for Canberra homeowners, this experience is far from uncommon. The capital's diverse city landscape, with its thoroughly kept parks, developed rural gar

Ants are amongst the most successful organisms on earth, and no place is their flexibility more obvious than in a city like Canberra, where the combination of distinct seasonal temperature variation, comprehensive green areas, and the warmth produced by property and industrial buildings creates a