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Invasive crazy ants can demolish native grasshoppers in just 4 hours – and that’s a serious threat to conservation

Invasive species can cause all kinds of problems, from outcompeting native animals to wiping out crops and causing massive ...
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'Crazy' invasive Mississippi bugs attack animals, birds and make hard to kill super colonies

There's an invasive species in Mississippi that numbers in the millions, asphyxiates its prey and creates huge super colonies that are nearly impossible to eradicate. Tawny crazy ants get their name ...
Journalism in the Americas

Destroying Crazy Ant Nest Structure Makes Them Vulnerable to Pathogens

Research initiated at a UT field station keeps progressing. That is good news for a war on an invasive species. Tawny crazy ant workers tend larvae. Credit: Edward LeBrun/University of Texas at Austin ...
Forbes

This Wasp Was Brought To Christmas Island In 2017—7 Years Later A Struggling Species Thrives

An ecological upheaval involving crazy ants killed millions of red crabs and threatened the survival of the species on Christmas Island, Australia. Now, a micro-wasp has helped restore balance. Every ...

Yellow crazy ants eradication at risk from funding loss

Yellow crazy ants are on the list of the world's 100 worst invasive species. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover ...