Most people pay to get rid of them!
This is how Texas and the rest of America were rewarded with FIRE ANTS !!!
Ants? Does Letitia run the place?
Apparently several species of ants are promising research subjects in cancer research and other healthcare related research. Maybe that is why these were sought out.
I wonder if it was this species, also found in Ivory Coast? Or was it a particular species they were looking for?
“The Matabele ants (Megaponera analis), which are widespread south of the Sahara, have a narrow diet: They only eat termites. Their hunting expeditions are dangerous because termite soldiers defend their conspecifics – and use their powerful mandibles to do so. It is therefore common for the ants to be injured while hunting.
If the wounds become infected, there is a significant survival risk. However, Matabele ants have developed a sophisticated healthcare system: they can distinguish between non-infected and infected wounds and treat the latter efficiently with antibiotics they produce themselves. This is reported by a team led by Dr Erik Frank from Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg and Professor Laurent Keller from the University of Lausanne in the journal Nature Communications.”
As if Belgians haven’t done quite enough to Africa already!
kramer is an unindicted co-conspirator