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Crazy ants displacing fire ants in US

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#1 Offline BugFinder - Posted December 28 2014 - 10:08 PM

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"As their population swells, the ants, formally known as Nylanderia fulva (but also sometimes called Rasberry crazy ants in honor of the Texas exterminator that discovered them), are harming the environment—not to mention people’s homes and electronics. Now we have a new clue as to why they are able to prevail over the previously dominant fire ants: Crazy ants produce chemicals they then rub on themselves as an antidote to fire ant venom. And the acidic substance exuded from where a stinger would be located on other ant species also doubles as a chemical weapon they spray at foes, allowing the crazy ants to defeat competitors that would otherwise help keep them in check."

 

Full story in the Scientific American Magazine.


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#2 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 28 2014 - 10:23 PM

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That is why I like my Nylanderia vividula colonies! (y) Then again, I keep Solenopsis invicta as well, but hey, whatever... Also the fact Nylanderia vividula are not the same thing as fulva, but whatever... again...



#3 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 28 2014 - 10:27 PM

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I have already read about this though. Still pretty cool though, maybe RIFA will lose their throne.



#4 Offline dermy - Posted December 30 2014 - 12:31 PM

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Oh noes not before they make it to Canada :(

 

J/King you can keep your RIFA and all that.



#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 30 2014 - 2:18 PM

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Oh noes not before they make it to Canada :(

 

J/King you can keep your RIFA and all that.

I don't think RIFA likes the place you live.



#6 Offline Vendayn - Posted December 30 2014 - 3:45 PM

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Edited by Vendayn, March 9 2018 - 7:15 PM.






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