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PHOTOS: Ants take over home in south-west France

‘I’ve been destroying several nests every day but they keep coming’

Giant 800-metre ant colony beneath beach in the south of France

‘Hundreds of millions of ants’ have been building a megacolony below the sand dunes

Electric ants, hornets: The battle against invasive species in France

The electric ant which has a painful bite was first detected in France last summer. Experts are now racing against the clock to stop the spread

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‘Electric’ sting fire ants found in France for first time

The invasive species from South America can sting the eyes of domestic pets, causing blindness

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‘They are everywhere’: French town suffers severe ant infestation

Residents say they can no longer go outside without being bitten by the insects, which belong to a notoriously-tough Mediterranean species

French scientists train ants to detect cancer with 95% success rate

The hope is that one day the insects will offer an early, non-invasive way to detect tumours