Red fire ants invade Italy: Are they a threat in Europe? | Focus on Europe
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- Dozens of red fire ant nests have been discovered in Sicily. Scientists are now battling the highly aggressive insect from South America.
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Thumbnail is of red weaver ant.
Let me tell you, these ants moved into my region 15-20 years ago. They are impossible to stop once established.
That thumbnail picture is not a pic of fire ants. It looks like weaver ants.
We have a problem with them in Australia too
how is it a problem they are just ants ?
You have no idea I'm from America 1 ant is nothing but want about 1000 vary angry ants that eat everything @@Desperate-Drive3423
@@Desperate-Drive3423haven't you watched the video? They're devastating for agriculture and native ecosystems.
The raises a question: can Echidnas and Numbats eat fire ant or are they poisonous to them? Because they already eat ants and termites so they could be use to stop the ants from overpopulating any further.
First red army and now red ants ??? please can we have Nato respond to this new threat ?
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Who knows it is the Nato behind it!
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America will be no help, we have already been overrun by the red menace
NATO are preparing stern words.
All of TX and the entire southeast of the US would like to welcome you to the party.
Yep. Florida here.
Bruh, Sicily is in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea... Really close to a desert area. It was only natural to appear there at some point. Only to us this is strange, to them it's just migration. edit: And the problem is that if they find some solution to this problem, they won't kill just the fire ants, but also the rest of the ants because pesticides don't discriminate species. That's the saddest part.
If it found its way onto an island, it can find its way onto the mainland.
If you eradicate all ants in a Fire Ant zone, local species will refill the power vacuum overtime. If you don't eradicate Fire Ants they enslave other ants but have no use for their Queens, so your local species are at threat of extinction over time.
In Australia, the government fire ant erradication program uses a combination of S-Methoprene, Pyripoxyfen, and Indoxacarb. The Queensland government have had the most success in the irradiation containment and control of the Red Imported Fire Ant.
Spectricide Fire Ant Mound Destroyer works great.
DW, you're great and thank you so much for all the reporting you do!
those little ants really pains people
Their sting hurts 😢
I just destroyed a red invasive fire ant mound. I'm in the US. They weren't supposed to be in my county, but they are.
Thay are all over Houston Texas I was going there as a kid in the early 2000s and I was always getting stung by them
Little fire ants are also invading Hawaii
Don't throw the food in the road 😂
Thats massacre killing millions of ants
4:35 This is the face of a man who means business...
They need to use Diatomaceous Earth and not poisons.
Diatomaceous earth may kill a small number of worker ants, however it is completely ineffective against the queens. Unlikely to slow down a colony by a measurable amount.
Why is it, that informative videos often have disturbing background music?
Now red ants too!
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I have them sometimes in my yard in the US. They are not a big deal, I just put ant bait on new nests. Leave it to the Italians to spend a lot of money on some flashy novel thing to get rid of them. They are all over the US and easily controlled.
I've seen Americans use molten metal to exterminate fire ants.
@@KnightsAndDarths yeah because it's fun and makes a mold of the nest.
this is a losing battle
Natural insect control
They are probably everywhere in the United States. Very invasive. 😢
Not in Ohio yet 😊
They are not everywhere in the United States. They started in Alabama in the 1930s, spred from there since the 1950s, and are now in 17 Southern states, from California to Delaware. They are thought to be limited in their spread by cold winters.
You may know the story of Johnny Appleseed, spreading apples across continents. Meet Johnny Fire Ant. I do for ants what he did for apples. Enjoy.
Waaaaaaaat? First the immigrants and now insects 😮😮😮😮 why ?????
It probably doesn't help that people keep these as pets, even here in UK. I'm sure many escape into the wild.
I cannot se anyone keeping Fire Ants as pets, at least, not here in Florida. [ but then again….]
@@jeffking4176 They do here in UK. Seems to be a hobby they enjoy. No idea what fire ants offer as a pet that local ants don't offer, apart from the nasty sting.
@@jeffking4176 The US is the country with the largest number of Lions and Tigers kept as pets... ants as murican pets should not be a surprise at all
😂yea Nato should focus on this rather than other " red".
Goodness I hope not . I am from the south in America. Moved over to EU 10 years ago . These things are a nightmare, and if too many bite you at once, you can't get super sick and / or die . Trust me, if one bites you you ll k ow it !
Damn, itching all over me, especially my hair damnit!
Great, first they were invasive, now they are going to be organized
But they are still away from the mainland Europe
After not heeding warnings from America, the Queensland Government in Australia was slow to react & are now spending millions on the problem.
I was hoping when I say this report, the Government there would mobilise faster but I guess governments everywhere are lethargic by nature. In Australia, Fire Ants seem to be migrating toward cooling climates to our south, so I'm guessing in that part of the world those to the North of Italy (& Europe) have the most to be concerned about.
Uncooked grits work on ants
May the fire ants came to Europe with imported fruits and vegetables .
They blind dogs
It is a climate thing
the red ants are invading, why isn’t the border closed. eu what are you doing
Oh no. The EU had better jump on this fast or it will be too late to stop the spread, just like a virus. and it's not just plants they hurt.
I remember my Texas granddad doing some maintenance on a mailbox post, when a huge nest of fire ants that had moved in after he collected the mail that morning all came boiling up from the ground and stinging him.
Fire ants are named for their bites that burn like fire, not for their color . I realize now the shock could've killed him- he had a bad heart, and heart attacks tended to kill the men in his family.
I just looked up Texas fire ants to make sure they were the same species, and not only are they the same ones, but they aren't native to Texas either. but they are the main snt in the area now. Not only that, but when there's floods, fire ant nests all hook together and make rafts with their bodies, alternwtely crawling on top to breathe with the queen and eggs protected inside, so one of the hazards of flooding in Texas are these angry, flailing, aggressive mats of stinging fire ants bobbing along in the floodwaters searching for something to grab onto.
Can we put humans on that scale where we measure damage to other living creatures before we start hating on Solenopsis please? Btw, nice Asian weaver ants, if you need stock footage in future get in touch! Tell the rose grower to remove the aphids from her roses and the ants will move on, they’re there for the sticky aphid food not her prized roses!
Special anty operation
Ant be like-☪️🕌alla hu akber😊
Eeeek
Red Fire .. forever 💪🐜
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Are fire ants from china
Blame Putin.
it came in the cocaine
the cocaine you buy
Tiny immigrants
No but Russians are.
you clearly don't know how to determine threats
Dw ??? really,??? Run more Ukraine stories but less lies & eat ants!!!
We love them in africa we have been co-existing , so west should stop colonising them
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I'm sorry I don't get it
Solenopsis invicta is not known to have invaded Africa. You probably think of other species of fire ants.