"Omelet" wrote in message
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jOhN wrote:
Better than fire ants... The fire ants are wiping out ground nesting
birds such as meadowlark and bobwhite quail.
The rasberry's are taking out the fire ants so I'm kinda guessing they
are not particularly benign ;-)
The species they say is related in South America may kill animals by
clogging their breathing passages.........not a good visual.
Too many of any species is not a good thing.
While I see what you mean, the bloody fire ants are already out of hand.
I used to do wildlife rescue.
Fire ant fawns are not pretty...
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Peace! Om
"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein
Ants in general do the cleanup duty of carcasses in drier areas of the
country. I have seen carrion eating birds jumping wildly near some not so
fresh carcasses, then flying away. A closer inspection I saw fireants.
I tend to thing there is some relationship between the very obvious decline
of harvester ants, and the fireant population. I do not see any horned
toads any longer.
http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/l-5314.html
There may be similar implications with another species of ant roaming the
local area.
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Dave