Posted on 06/24/2021 10:24:40 AM PDT by algore
US Fish and Wildlife Service said the yellow crazy ant has finally been successfully removed from Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
•The atoll is in the Pacific Ocean, roughly 820 miles southwest of Honolulu.
•The last sighting of a yellow crazy ant was in December 2017
•Yellow crazy ants, which originated in Southeast Asia, stalk seabirds on the atoll
•They spray formic acid on the birds, causing injuries and even death
•Yellow crazy ants are 'scavenging predators,' with diets that include grains, seeds and have been known to attack and dismember land crabs, earthworms and other insects
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All the best invasive species seem to come from Asia.
Murder Hornets and Acid-Spitting Crazy Ants.
Sounds like a drive-in double-feature!
they’re advertising a crazy bird?
Years ago north of Seattle landscapers introduced giant hogweed from Asia. It grows with a spiny trunk with a poison that burns when it gets on the skin and can cause blindness.
Impossible to destroy and must be fought back every year. Another Asian wonder.
Biden will welcome them here.
Between Asian carp, Kudzu, the Wuhan Flu and murder hornets, is there anything redeeming about the flora and fauna of Asia?
Strange isn't it? I am sure this isn't being purposely done by foreign agents or anything.
Teak
2020: Top that!
2021: Hold my beer ...
What? They aren’t from Australia?
Ah, good old Johnston Atoll! Stayed on that puppy for a while in the early ‘80s
1. 717 miles SSW of Honolulu, sits on the peak of a tall thin volcano and the water outside the reef dives down thousands of feet, immediately.
2. JA was used as an intermediate airstrip since WWII, then a nuclear weapons launching site in the 50s-60s until a couple of accidents there contaminated the area with lots of stray radiation and leftover plutonium.
3. JA was also used to store a large part of our chemical weapons arsenal for decades and then a disposal system was built there and after a number of years, all the stored stuff was incinerated - then the facility was destroyed.
4. They stored that wonderful USAF invention, Agent Orange, on JA and enough of it leaked into the soil to make one corner of that 1x1/2 mile islet permanently dangerous.
5. The sharks living in that reef are large and aggressive. I caught a 7 footer/400 pounder on essentially a hand line, secured to the trailer hitch of my Jeep. Once hooked, I drove him ashore.
Ants would be the least of anyone’s problems on JA.
Can you imagine if Teak were actually an invasive species, though? That would be great.
Instead, it only comes to this continent after its been rep-sawn and marked-up, substantially.
Not to mention bioweapons.
“Instead, it only comes to this continent after its been rep-sawn and marked-up, substantially.”
Central America now has Teak plantations.
“Ants would be the least of anyone’s problems on JA.”
A paradise for many people.
Where else are you going to make $70K/yr for folding laundry and have no living expenses? Others made and saved much, much more $$$. Some ktrs. didn’t have to pay fed tax (but others did). Work eight weeks and get two weeks of leave and a plane ticket. Had ants get into a sealed energy bar inside my suitcase. Knew a guy who got stung by a scorpion that was hanging out on his towel.
Workers were hoping stockpiles would be shipped in from other sites but that didn’t happen.
Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them
Around every river and canal their power is is growing
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour
They are invincible
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering
Long ago in the Russian hills
A Victorian explorer found
The regal Hogweed by a marsh
He captured it and brought it home
Botanical creature stirs! Seeking revenge...
Royal beast did not forget
He came home to London
And made a present of the Hogweed
To the Royal Gardens at Kew
Waste no time!
They are approaching
Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter
Strike by night!
They are defenceless
They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom
Still they're invincible
Still they're immune to all our herbicidal battering
Fashionable country gentlemen
Had some cultivated wild gardens
In which they innocently planted
The Giant Hogweed throughout the land
Botanical creature stirs! Seeking revenge...
Royal beast did not forget
Soon they escaped, spreading their seed
Preparing for an onslaught
Threatening the human race
Mighty Hogweed is avenged!
Human bodies soon will know our anger
Kill them with your Hogweed hairs!
Heracleum Mantegazziani
This year’s murder hornets?
I guess - but people never see very far into their future, do they? I remember when they discovered a significant chunk of plutonium in front of the mess hall.
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