Australia’s native meat ants are struggling. Invasive species of foreign ants have a foothold on the continent, and are increasingly outcompeting their native rivals for territory. Beyond simple ...

If Australia does not ramp up fire ant eradication efforts, the invasive species will cause billion-dollar economic impacts and dozens of deaths, a study finds.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Invasive Species Council (ISC) has raised concerns about this unusual rafting behaviour as Australia prepares for more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, with the extreme ...

You feel something bite into your skin. A sharp pain shoots through your body as you look down and see a powerful insect ...

A tiny Australian spider has been found using a silk-powered catapult trap to fling aggressive green tree ants into its web. The discovery reveals one of nature’s most specialised and mechanical ...

Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers have discovered thousands of new ant species in the monsoonal tropics, showing ant populations in Northern Australia are some of the world's most diverse.

Fire ants aren’t famous for their negotiation skills. They took over a pretty decent slice of the southern United States without so much as a greeting card. That’s what seems to be happening in ...

A team of researchers at Macquarie University, in Australia, working with two colleagues from Universität Hamburg, in Germany, has uncovered the means by which the Australian ant-slayer spider is able ...