There is a specific frustration that comes with discovering ants marching actively across a kitchen bench at six in the morning, and for Canberra locals, this experience is far from uncommon. The capital's varied metropolitan landscape, with its carefully kept parks, developed suburban gardens, and the natural bushland reserves woven throughout the

Ants are amongst the most successful organisms in the world, and nowhere is their versatility more obvious than in a city like Canberra, where the mix of unique seasonal temperature variation, substantial green spaces, and the warmth produced by property and industrial structures produces an environment that numerous ant species have found out to e