‘Murder hornets’ might have everyone freaking out the mainland, but Hawaii has its own little, huge problem: Invasive ants.
These aren’t just any ant. Two species — yellow crazy ants and little fire ants — are destroying the islands’ native biodiversity and making life miserable for residents. Scientists have struggled to eradicate what are considered some of the world’s worst invasive species.
Now, they are unleashing helicopters dropping ant birth control to stop them from expanding territory. It’s the first time conservationists are spraying a non-toxic bait from helicopters to stop ants from reproducing, and it could provide a successful model for other places trying to control invasive bugs.
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'Murder hornets' might have people freaking out on the mainland, but Hawaii has its own little, huge problem: Invasive ants.
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I can't see how this could go wrong lol.
The woman at the end is funny
Very long time that he already grow a beard
Just get drones and save time and money
Imagine if aliens start controlling like this to human
I would think the dogs would breath in the ant ??? Or if the ants get on their nose. It can travel to their ears and eyes.
Thanks guys 💖👍 Awesome
Hippies Spraying ants with chemicals
Mmmm medication in your food supply and water, yummy!
wipe out all the queens and be done with it…
I had them crawl up my leg recently in single file lines and was pretty painful in Maui. I saw the solution to handle them is to reintroduce healthy mycelium and mushrooms into their environment.
Bring in the Anteaters!!
Innovation, that excites
I know something better then helicopter, planes. It can cover much wider area with much larger tank and faster speed.
I know I believe everything this woman says after she did that ridiculous head arm dance at the beginning,
ants ants, ants in your pants.
Red ants are spreading just like bad politics. Need to get rid of them before they ruin everything around us.
GREATTTTT Now more dogs can be slaved for free laborr…. jk lmao keeps the dog alert and it's actually healthy for dogs to be worked
We have this in PR
Oahu, all over Military housing, plenty of crazy and fire ants.
This does put a smile on my face
This might be a stupid question.. but can’t u just release some ant-eaters? So they can eat the ants?
Sounds like a stupid fucking idea.
Ants, Cats, I am waiting for the magic third.
I thought that diversity was good. Yall must be racist!
invasive…takes over resouces and destroy eco system balance of invaded land…kinda like yt ppl in hawaiian and other native lands…? hmmm
so these morons think this will work? rofl
😯…..Hunter x Hunter…. 💪🏻🐜 💅🏻 ??
So how is water, vegetable oil, and meat birth control for ants?
I find it funny that yes even though it is Hawaii, but they are almost all wearing flip flops. Id be wearing boots around ants.
Should have named the helicopter..Queen Ant's Revenge
Animals are also known as armies of GOD…So humans best know what they are doing wrong on God.s earth and change their ways.
Ants are very vital to the survival of our planet.. If they don't disturb us, we should leave them alone… Destroying and killing any species of animals that don't cause us harm will eventually come back to bite us.
look up Paul Stamets' cordyceps patent for eradicating ants.
"Today we sprayed birth control from Helicopters." What the hell is wrong with you people? Just bring in the anteaters. God, anything but spraying some more nasty chemicals in the air
No toxic chemicals used. Yea, after they had the larvicide declared non toxic. Humans have been spraying chemicals onto the land for close to a hundred years now in attempts to control the environment and make it suitable for their needs. In the process they have eradicated tens of thousands of species in the microbiome. Without even realizing what we did we have started a cascade effect of extinctions which is going to play out for hundreds of years. No one can really say exactly how bad this is going to be, but the vast majority of biologists agree that the end effect will be catastrophic. Read Rachel Carsons book "Silent Spring" to understand how badly we screwed up in the 50's and 60's with exactly this type of program. I strongly doubt that they have a chemical which only stops one species from reproducing, but hey mentioning the other species affected doesn't fit the story line. We as a species have a hard time accepting that we screwed up. We are unwilling to just step back and let our mistakes play out and not make the same mistake again. No we think that we're the dominant creature on the planet and if we just try hard enough we can fix anything. We can't, and that has been shown time and time again.
Helicopter-ant birth control sprayer simulator 21
May be you deserve it.
So it's been a year. What's the progress
its a fact that all the ants on earth equal all people on earth in mass or as some say weight sounds stupid but look it up