How do people deal with invasive ant species?

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ALV 22 Jul @ 12:17pm

How do nature agencies and the like deal with an invasive ant species? I mean it's not like hunting invasive snakes and fish

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vkobe 22 Jul @ 12:24pm

normally they compete against other ants and insects, parasite and mushroom limit their grow

󠀡󠀡 22 Jul @ 12:26pm

live amongst them and prosper

Voroff 22 Jul @ 12:32pm

With fire. The power to create a minuscule sun. BRING THEIR SOCIETY DOWN WITH THE ARMAGEDDON FIRE OF A NUKE !

That, or you can try chemistry with repellants and ant-killer sprays or paste, or even ant-eater pets.

About nature agencies : well, chemistry and genetics. Did you do research on how governements and all fight against mosquitoes ? And there is some flesh-eating flies in central america, the effort, coordinated by the CDC, was to airdrop sterile (male ?) flies over the affected regions, as those flies mate for life : the couple can't reproduce.

Drain 22 Jul @ 12:39pm

As a ranger, I found the shotguns and grenade launchers to be pretty effective against big swarms of ants. Glory to EDF.

Ice Robertson 22 Jul @ 12:39pm

Originally posted by ALV:
How do nature agencies and the like deal with an invasive ant species? I mean it's not like hunting invasive snakes and fish

We used to have an ant problem but we kept poisoning them and we haven't had a problem in decades.