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Published online 16 April 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020415-1
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Ants create united Europe
Invading insect empire stretches 6,000 kilometres.
An invading empire has conquered Europe. One super-colony of South American ants, with millions of nests and billions of individuals, stretches 6,000 kilometres around the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, researchers have found.
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