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Ant domestication

Started By AdamL , Nov 12 2019 12:01 PM

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#21 Offline Canadian anter - Posted December 10 2019 - 1:53 PM

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I'd be interested in domesticating ants that could keep Argentines at bay. (Unless they are even more obnoxious or dangerous.) You know, set up sentry ant colonies around the yard to keep marauding Argentines out ... yeah oh well I'll dream on.

Haha sentries don't work against waves and waves of ants usually. Prenolepis have evolved a bit to fend Argentines off tbough

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#22 Offline ponerinecat - Posted December 10 2019 - 7:06 PM

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I'd be interested in domesticating ants that could keep Argentines at bay. (Unless they are even more obnoxious or dangerous.) You know, set up sentry ant colonies around the yard to keep marauding Argentines out ... yeah oh well I'll dream on.

Haha sentries don't work against waves and waves of ants usually. Prenolepis have evolved a bit to fend Argentines off tbough

No, they haven't. Their natural defenses just happens to work sufficiently enough.

#23 Offline ANTdrew - Posted December 10 2019 - 7:36 PM

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Prenolepis compete with other ants by being active in far colder conditions. I think they can just survive Argentines because of this. It’s not so much that they’re fighting them back or something.

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#24 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted December 13 2019 - 1:20 PM

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Prenolepis compete with other ants by being active in far colder conditions. I think they can just survive Argentines because of this. It’s not so much that they’re fighting them back or something.

Actually studies show their chemical defenses freak the heck out of Argentine ants.

This was a great article, though I believe I had to go back and read more of the original literature. It does have cool videos.

https://www.kqed.org...ne-ant-invaders

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