The Newmarket women’s football side was gearing up for its clash against crosstown club New Farm United in Brisbane’s inner northern suburbs on Saturday morning when a message pinged in the team’s group chat. Just hours before kick-off, the game was postponed, to a date undetermined. “We didn’t know why,” coach Craig Hughes says. “It rained overnight on Friday, but I thought: ‘Oh, really? It didn’t rain that much.’” Later, the team would learn that wet weather was not the direct cause of the game’s 11th-hour cancellation – it was ants. A journal article in the Proceedings of the National
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