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Originally Posted by kektex
Yes,but I am a bit further north in Venezuela.So we are not responsible for the ant problem! 
I was really intrigued by that and found this link. Crazy stuff. |
Good article, this part is particularly menacing:
"It could be worse. Holway, the biology professor from UCSD, said Southern California residents may one day remember fondly the problems they used to have with Argentine ants. He said that's because Argentine ants could be replaced themselves within the next decade by a more terrifying alien invader ---- the red imported fire ant, an aggressive ant with the bite of a wasp sting."
"The red imported fire ant is common in 11 southern states; it found its way to California in 1998, and has caused Orange County to be placed under a state quarantine."
"The Argentinian ant was introduced into the south before the fire ant. And nobody talks about the Argentinian ant in the Southeast," Holway said. "And that implies that (fire ants) out-competed the Argentinian ants."
"And fire ants sting," he said. "Argentinian ants don't sting."
GREAT.
