Fire Ants versus Argentine Ants

Ecologist Dr. David Holway of UC San DIego travels to Isla del Cerrito, in northern Argentina - the native range of the two most problematic, invasive ant species in the US - to look for clues to why they become such pests. He studies interactions between red imported fire ants and Argentine ants to understand how the ecosystems in which they evolved contribute to their success as invaders.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ants
• Argentine ants
• fire ants
• David Holway
• invasive species
• social insects
• introduced species
• mutualism
• gastroflagging
• ecology
• ecosystems
• Argentina
• UC San Diego

[mattblackpower]

i thought it sed verses? i wanna c ant blood!

[Retroelf]

@xlade Mutualism, as well as the other relationships (commensalism and parasitism), apply to organisms. A water source is not an organism

[Hobitman62]

Go messi ants!!!

[TheNehalem01]

@marianolaplata1 jajaja justo ahora estoy viendo un programa en animal planet de estas hormigas de como invadieron eeuu jajaja son re locas

[LifeOfTheParty323]

It's a grasshopper and it didn't really hop away. It just died lol

[FlyingInk52]

Who else came here for an epic ant battle?

[Burnz2much]

@Snakeoil8 For us, not them. "Bad" is a point of view.

[Snakeoil8]

@HuntorrrRaptor134 "Important" doesn't necessarily mean good. It just means that it affects people a great deal one way or the other. In the case of invasive ants, it's in a bad way.

[marianolaplata1]

wow.. mira vos, hasta donde llegaron nuestras conciudadanas !

[xlwaiyiplx]

rice harvesting

[FPShkED]

lol how come almost every sentence ends as ? lol

[ihatehaters73]

why are there dislikes? this is science not a hating video.