$6 billion a year? These flies could spell the next economic bail-out!

Not sure if this is such a good idea to introduce yet another foreign element. They must be very careful.

Reminds me of the classic Simpsons episode where Bart mistakenly mothers invasive Bolivian tree lizard.

Then when these lizard population gets too big, Skinner plans to introduce another invasive species, the Chinese snakes. Then they'll introduce gorillas to kill off the snakes, and then winter will take care of the rest LOL

Brain-eating maggots call for a resounding Damn, nature! You scary!

One musn't underestimate the ability of organisms to adapt to an environment, including finding other food sources once the fire ant population is more controlled.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...

>> ^Hanns:
One musn't underestimate the ability of organisms to adapt to an environment, including finding other food sources once the fire ant population is more controlled.


My thoughts exactly. The guy seems so certain that we'll never see these flies ourselves, but when the fire ant population runs out, I'm sure they'll find something else to feed on. The only thing I could think of after watching this video was "Oh, great..."

The weather has something to do with why they're here, too. We're becoming more like SA in other ways as well.

Nothing like a little brain food to start your day.

George Romero taught us the folly of trying to control things that eat brains.

>> ^Hanns:
One musn't underestimate the ability of organisms to adapt to an environment, including finding other food sources once the fire ant population is more controlled.


One problem they've had with the flies is that they can't survive extreme conditions like fire ants can (freezing temps, extreme droughts, ect) so they have to release more flies occasionally to keep their numbers up.

It's possible that they'll seek out other ants eventually, but fire ants aren't that friendly to other ants to begin with. I'm not sure how else to control the fire ants effectively. Hopefully they take these possibilities very seriously (which they seem to be doing).

>> ^Psychologic:
>> ^Hanns:
One musn't underestimate the ability of organisms to adapt to an environment, including finding other food sources once the fire ant population is more controlled.

One problem they've had with the flies is that they can't survive extreme conditions like fire ants can (freezing temps, extreme droughts, ect) so they have to release more flies occasionally to keep their numbers up.
It's possible that they'll seek out other ants eventually, but fire ants aren't that friendly to other ants to begin with. I'm not sure how else to control the fire ants effectively. Hopefully they take these possibilities very seriously (which they seem to be doing).


Other ants??? Who fucking cares about these borrowing into the brains of other ANTS??? Don't you watch movies? Gimme a can of DDT cuz those little mofos are NOT gonna get me!

Bravo, I hate fire ants.