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 ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

Much like the cane toad, whose population explosion disrupted the local ecosystem upon introduction in Australia, the Argentine ants began to wreak havoc once they reached the U.S. The Argentine ...

“Yesterday, for example, I got really badly bitten by like ants, mosquitoes ... s ‘I was poisoned’ claim disputed by food experts Australian Open start date, TV channel and how to watch ...

and weaver ants, which live in ball-shaped nests within tropical tree canopies across Asia, Africa, and Australia. Her team looked at how the microbes influenced apple brown rot and apple scab in two ...

Emma Raducanu has become the latest victim of Australia’s famously hostile wildlife – although it was not spiders or snakes in her case, but rather “jumping ants”. During a day off ...

Landowners in the Sunshine Coast hinterland have been left reeling after the deadly fire ant pest was found at a local ...

Emma Raducanu has been left with a swollen hand and ankle after being ‘badly bitten by ants’ at the 2025 Australian Open in dramatic scenes. The British tennis star, world No.60, is unseeded ...