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Possible Extinction of Ant Population

  • 23-05-2008 10:03am
    #1
    Fleming15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭


    Hello,

    I was speaking to my mate, he Australian, living in Melbourne.

    He was telling me that the ant population in Australia is under massive stress due to ecological factors, mainly global warming and water shortages.

    Things really seem to have reached dire straits when you hear stories like this.


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  • #2
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    I was reading some research lately that had come the conclusion that Australia has been going through a wet spell for the last few thousand years and that things are about to get drier!


  • #3
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,569 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    maybe i could send some from my garden i have loads nightmare weeding an ant colony

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #4
    bonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Fleming15 wrote: »
    Things really seem to have reached dire straits when you hear stories like this.

    Oh, I'm sure its just another one of those "manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis" things you went on about in another thread today.


  • #5
    Fleming15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Fleming15


    bonkey wrote: »
    Oh, I'm sure its just another one of those "manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis" things you went on about in another thread today.

    Correct, mate.

    I sent an email to a scientist today, this idiot. I asked this clown if there was any chance of the extinction of men in white coats, politicians and the media. I eagerly await his reply.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7413948.stm


  • #6
    probe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭probe


    Better extinct!

    We had them in the apartment building I live in two years ago. They (Mediterranean ants) reproduce by the million overnight. No thanks.

    One also comes across them in the Pyrenees (big things) and they bite!

    In (even warmer) Houston, TX they are attacking the electrical and telecommunications infrastructure and gumming up air conditioners. In HOU, if your internet connection goes down it is probably the ants (or Comcast).

    .probe


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  • #7
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    see my signature


  • #8
    Fleming15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Fleming15


    probe wrote: »
    Better extinct!

    They (Mediterranean ants) reproduce by the million overnight. No thanks.

    Exactly. This proves my point, the masses have been so indoctrinated by this green, save the whales rubbish they will even accept a claim that the ant populations of Australia are in decline.


  • #9
    muggyog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭muggyog


    I suspect that ants would survive a nuclear explosion. Their dispersion around the globe and capacity to adapt leaves me with no concerns about their survival.


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