Plan for 2km lockdown across 10 Sydney suburbs after fire ant biosecurity breach: 'Deploying drones'

Fire ants discovered in Sydney have triggered a biosecurity crackdown, with a 2km control zone set to cover parts of 10 ...

Major biosecurity threat detected at Aussie port as authorities scramble to contain it: 'World's worst'

Source: DPIRD A specialist team and detection dogs have been sent to an Australian port after a biosecurity breach was ...

Ants, facts and information

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family Formicidae) number over 12,000, and some experts estimate upwards of 20,000 ...