Seasonal rhythms form life in Canberra in ways that identify the capital from Australia's warmer seaside cities, and those rhythms reach the behaviour of the ant populations that share the city's property and business areas with its human residents. The transition from Canberra's cold winter into

Ants are among the most effective organisms in the world, and nowhere is their flexibility more obvious than in a city like Canberra, where the combination of unique seasonal temperature variation, comprehensive green spaces, and the warmth generated by property and industrial buildings develops