Seasonal rhythms shape life in Canberra in manner ins which distinguish the capital from Australia's warmer seaside cities, and those rhythms extend to the behaviour of the ant populations that share the city's residential and industrial areas with its human residents. The transition from Canberr

There is a particular frustration that includes finding ants marching purposefully throughout a cooking area bench at six in the early morning, and for Canberra citizens, this experience is far from unusual. The capital's varied metropolitan landscape, with its carefully maintained parks, develop

Ants are amongst the most successful organisms on the planet, 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 residential and industrial structures creates an e