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Index of Subjects Sounds like a joke, to me. I remember irruptions of flying ants on hot August days in the '50's and '60's, and think flying reproductives are how ant species establish new colonies ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Doull" <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 8:54 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Flying ants > Read the comments in Chronicle Herald in Internet below. It was in > response > of flying ants in Halifax. Any truth in it? > > "Flying ants are not natural species to Nova Scotia. They were introduced > by > local sport ant hunters who determined the native, ground-walking Nova > Scotia ants were too easy to catch in the 1970s. They have been known to > breed with the Northern wild ant, thus creating a hybrid-type that appears > unafraid of humans and can act unpredictably" >
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