While we are trying to eradicate red important fire ants and yellow crazy ants from coastal Queensland, our government surveillance needs to be on the lookout for the arrival of other worrisome ants from the tramp ant family. In Georgia, in the US, they are facing the prospect of the arrival of the tawny crazy ant. ... "Fire ants changed the ecology in areas where they invaded; now the tawny crazy ants will wreak new ecological transformations, affecting not just other ants, but the area’s whole web of plant and animal life. They reduce biodiversity at the base of the food chain, they wrote." “It will have a cascade effect ecologically, like all invasive species do,” Suiter said.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:17:31 +0000