Many of you are probably aware of fire ants. However, for a few years now there have been experiments with a small insect called the phorid, a type of winged insect which burrows into the head of the ant to lay eggs, I understand.
North Carolina, Florida, and Texas were experimenting with them. Have the phorids been brought out to the private sector?
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~gilbert/research/fireants/
2007-08-09
08:00:15
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My objection to the use of Diazinone and other chemical "treatments" is that first, as at least one person has concurred, you end up just chasing the ants around, not really preventing them from living in your environment. Secondly, the chemicals leach into the water table, and are carried downstream to lakes, rivers, and oceans.
If you think this is not a problem, try going in a river, lake, or even along the shores of our coast. Smell the water, see the colour and texture of the water, and note the froth, the scum, the slime left on rocks, banks, beaches.
Hence arises my interest in a biological solution, an ecological solution.
2007-08-10
03:26:12 ·
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