A nest of up to 5,000 narrow-headed ants was dug up and taken from Chudleigh Knighton Heath in south Devon, the only place in England where the species still survives.
A nest of up to 5,000 narrow-headed ants was dug up and taken from Chudleigh Knighton Heath in south Devon, the only place in England where the species still survives.
Shocking, truly. Nobody could have predicted that people would dig up a rare ant nest from a heath that is the only place the species survives in England. Thieves gonna thieve, and apparently a colony of thousands of narrow-headed ants is just a fancy patio ornament now. The real news would be a government agency guarding a fragile habitat with more than a cardboard sign and a prayer.