In 1969, as the free love-obsessed hippie movement was giving way to a more spacy 1970s, author Philip K. Dick wrote a short story, “The Electric Ant, ” a cerebral sci-fi piece about a person stuck ...

A tiny, exotic ant is causing delays in the massive clean-up effort in far north Queensland after Cyclone Yasi. Electric ants have been found in several suburbs in Cairns, as well as Kuranda, west of ...

Which is smarter: a swarm of brainless mini-robots with clockwork guts, or a colony of ravenous, half-blind Argentine ants? If you answered mindless robots, you’re right — but just barely. Researchers ...

An invasive pest with a “painful, venomous sting” that can cause blindness has triggered an urgent plea after being discovered in an Aussie town. Electric ants — also referred to as little fire ants — ...

ELEANOR HALL: The Queensland Government today launched a campaign against the electric ant, a South American visitor which set up in the far north of the state about five years ago. The electric ant ...

Electric ant infestations have been reported in Port Douglas and surrounding areas recently and the National Electric Ant Eradication Program are doing all the can to stop them from spreading.

They can’t be stopped with conventional pesticide. They can disable a huge industrial plant, and they short out electrical equipment. They eat animals as well as plants. Kill 100,000, and a million ...