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[Ants_Dakota]

Which is exactly what I am going to do when I am finished with my education, and ready to start a business. Anywhere with snow and a cool summer; I hate the heat. Not to mention how expensive it would be for me to live here permanently.....

How about South Dakota? We have cold winters and mild summers, and not that many mosquito's(but enough to have their presence felt ) 

[Ants_Dakota]

We have tetramorium here, and they are an invasive species, and they cooperate with native species, mostly battling it out with each other. I have a formica colony located 6 feet from a large tetramorium colony in my yard, and they seem to respect each others territory.

[AntsDakota]

I think it’s more like this-

There are so many Lasius and Formica colonies around that Tetramorium cannot get a good foothold, except in small areas. It seems like they’re ‘quarantined’ in their own suitable environment, while Lasius and Formica completely dominate everywhere else.

[AntsDakota]

Which is exactly what I am going to do when I am finished with my education, and ready to start a business. Anywhere with snow and a cool summer; I hate the heat. Not to mention how expensive it would be for me to live here permanently.....

How about South Dakota? We have cold winters and mild summers, and not that many mosquito's(but enough to have their presence felt )

Yes! And real estate is extremely cheap, especially compared to California. Also, the largest cities in the state, Sioux Falls and Rapid City, are large enough to have their own economies, a large selection of shopping centers, banks, insurance, real estate, entertainment, you name it. So not all the state is rural farmland, like most seem to think.

Edited by AntsDakota, February 23 2020 - 3:38 PM.

[ANTdrew]

If people in California stopped the mass amount of watering and landscaping, it would have a big effect. Bigger than relocating native ants.

I have actually seen neighborhoods water less or stop watering all together because of the drought restrictions, and there were no Argentine ants but only native ants.

Sadly, where I live they sure love their green landscape. Here its like there is no drought at all, water as much as possible. But the areas that have respected drought restrictions actually have an increase in native ants (and other native life)

Exactly, brother! This was my whole point about the native plants. Sorry it ended up in an argument, but I’m certain that Argentines would have a hard time dealing with desert conditions.