http://www.videosift.com/video/Fire-ants-form-liferaft-to-navigate-floodwaters

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>> ^fford:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fire-ants-form-liferaft-to-naviga
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Bravo, I hate fire ants.

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>> ^imstellar28:
releasing fast-evolving brain eating parasites near human populations; what could possibly go wrong?


Thank God evolution doesn't exist in the South!

The results are promising until there are zombie fire ants infesting your BRAIN.

These flies better be obligate parasites specific to fire ants.
Biological control makes me nervous.

>> ^Darkhand:
Whoever that white chick at the end was can make me into a zombie any day!


You want her to bite into your brains and chew your head off? Well, whatever floats your boat! mmm Brains...?

i love how he jams his hand into that fire ant nest

>> ^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!

>> ^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).