From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 01:20:59 MDT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid%5F1932000/1932509.stm
A species of Argentine ant introduced into Europe about 80 years ago
has developed the largest supercolony ever recorded.
It stretches 6,000 kilometres - from northern Italy, through the
south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain - with billions of
related ants occupying millions of nests.
[...]
More on this:
http://animals.about.com/library/weekly/aa042002a.htm
Reference:
Shouse, B. Ants form European union. Science (online) 17 April 2002.
Amara
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