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Fire ants excel at human assisted spread, which makes any construction or mining supply chain a risk if controls lapse.

A Queensland woman says she has been left battling a severe fire ant infestation alone, spending hundreds on pesticides.

A tiny Caribbean ant fossil, Basiceros enana, trapped in amber reveals a lost species and rewrites the evolutionary history.