Seasonal rhythms shape life in Canberra in ways that differentiate the capital from Australia's warmer coastal cities, and those rhythms reach the behaviour of the ant populations that share the city's property and business areas with its human occupants. The transition from Canberra's cold winte

Ants are amongst the most successful organisms in the world, and nowhere is their flexibility more evident than in a city like Canberra, where the combination of distinct seasonal temperature level variation, substantial green spaces, and the warmth generated by property and industrial structures