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  • gta95
    MVP
    • Apr 2007
    • 2234
    #1

    Zombie Fire Ants?

    Texas' plan to contain fire ants. Remind me of a segment of Planet Earth where the small rainforest bugs were getting taken over by fungus

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    • Altimus
      Chelsea, Assemble!
      • Nov 2004
      • 27283
      #2
      Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

      1 billion dollars annually? Wow!

      Either way, interesting story.

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        • p_rushing
          Hall Of Fame
          • Feb 2004
          • 14514
          #3
          Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

          Until the flies take over. Hopefully they have thought this through and researched it thoroughly before releasing them into the wild. The ants help to clean leftover/dead stuff up. You don't want to wipe them all out and introduce something to the ecosystem that shouldn't be there.

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            • pfunk880
              MVP
              • Jul 2004
              • 4452
              #4
              Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

              Originally posted by p_rushing
              Until the flies take over. Hopefully they have thought this through and researched it thoroughly before releasing them into the wild. The ants help to clean leftover/dead stuff up. You don't want to wipe them all out and introduce something to the ecosystem that shouldn't be there.
              Exactly, you've got to be very careful with stuff like this. To us, fire ants may just seem annoying, but the ecosystem is something that is very delicately balanced.
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                • Maxattax3
                  MVP
                  • Aug 2008
                  • 2265
                  #5
                  Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

                  Have you ever been bitten by a fire ant? How about hundreds of fire ants? Thousands? Fire Ants are evil evil creatures. The ecosystem is of little importance when you step on a fire ant hill.
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                    • J0nnD0ugh
                      Hall Of Fame
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 16602
                      #6
                      Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

                      Nature is really gross.

                      And you know they haven't fully thought this whole thing through. What controls the flies? & do they only attack fire ants? Will they get rid of beneficial ants?
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                        • CMH
                          Making you famous
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 26203
                          #7
                          Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

                          It won't be too bad. That fire ant is not native to Texas, so whatever ecosystem will be altered, it's one that's already been altered by the inclusion of this specific species of ants in Texas.
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                            • J0nnD0ugh
                              Hall Of Fame
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 16602
                              #8
                              Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

                              Also, how small do those maggots have to be to take 2 weeks to eat the brain of an ant? I mean, shouldn't it take 15 seconds @ most?
                              Originally posted by VP Richard M. Nixon
                              I always remember that whatever I have done in the past, or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible one way or the other.
                              -August 17, 1960
                              Thanks, dookies!

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                                • pfunk880
                                  MVP
                                  • Jul 2004
                                  • 4452
                                  #9
                                  Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

                                  Originally posted by YankeePride
                                  It won't be too bad. That fire ant is not native to Texas, so whatever ecosystem will be altered, it's one that's already been altered by the inclusion of this specific species of ants in Texas.
                                  A valid point.
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                                    • pfunk880
                                      MVP
                                      • Jul 2004
                                      • 4452
                                      #10
                                      Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

                                      Originally posted by J0nnD0ugh
                                      Also, how small do those maggots have to be to take 2 weeks to eat the brain of an ant? I mean, shouldn't it take 15 seconds @ most?
                                      I think the brain is gone before the two weeks, the head just doesn't fall off until the developed fly emerges. In the meantime, the ant is wandering around without a brain.
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                                        • Hootiefish
                                          Pro
                                          • Aug 2002
                                          • 933
                                          #11
                                          Re: Zombie Fire Ants?

                                          I've got one word for you – kudzu.

                                          Brought in to fight soil erosion, now it is strangling the south.

                                          I am always weary when something unnatural is brought in to another ecosystem, even if it is used to combat another unnatural animal.
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