Introduce some from different colonies?

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nicabod

14th February 2007 - 11:11 PM

http://www.physorg.com/news77544117.html

While it"s very risky to import species, perhaps importing some from different Argentine colonies might create competition.

kaneda

15th February 2007 - 09:04 AM

I think they have the right idea of changing ants into each other's enemies and let them kill each other off.

The trouble with importing anything into another environment is that it may have no natural predators and so spread like wildfire.

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