Argentine ants One of the world’s top 10 invasive species, Argentine ants pose a serious threat to New Zealand's biodiversity. Find out how to spot and remove them from your home.

THESE ants!!!! They’re driving me to despair. 😩
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New research article! 📰

Kleckner & Ellis reviewed evidence that honeybees may form varied colony structures (like ants), challenging the single-nest paradigm in apiculture. 🏗
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Field Frame Friday: Ants know how to take a taxi! The black cocoa ant (Dolichoderus thoracicus) is one of Southeast Asia’s most common and widely recognized arboreal ant species. Recently, they have also attracted attention as an invasive sp…

Careful where you park! Park near a black cocoa ant colony, and your vehicle becomes an ant taxi! Yi-Ting Fang wrote about these ants and what a supercolony is, with photography by Feng-Chuan Hsu.
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