Australia's native ants do an incredible amount of environmental and agricultural heavy lifting. Here are 10 of our mighty little workers.

Aussies are being warned to keep an eye out for an invasive ant species as more than a dozen nests have reportedly been ...

For decades, the Fleurieu Peninsula’s swamps were routinely drained. But as the region battles the driest conditions on ...

Strangely, sun spiders are known to kill, but not eat, ants. They dispatch the ants quickly, leaving piles of ant bodies ...

Sun spiders can be found in deserts around the world, except in Antarctica and Australia ... mention the ants are likely red carpenter ants instead of fire ants. Both species are similar in ...

Breakfast porridge, our daily bread and rice sustaining more than half of the world’s population are all bred from natural ...

A majority of the insects you see in your garden don’t harm plants and are, in fact, “beneficials” because they benefit your ...

Southern Australia is suffering some of the lowest rainfall levels on record. The drought won’t break until the return of low pressure systems bringing heavy rain.