Seasonal rhythms shape life in Canberra in ways that differentiate the capital from Australia's warmer coastal cities, and those rhythms extend to the behaviour of the ant populations that share the city's domestic and commercial spaces with its human inhabitants. The shift from Canberra's cold w

Ants are among the most effective organisms on the planet, and nowhere is their flexibility more apparent than in a city like Canberra, where the mix of distinct seasonal temperature level variation, comprehensive green spaces, and the heat created by domestic and industrial buildings develops an