Grisly check to fire ant invasion -- a little horror film for Saturday Morning

To quote Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: "Fish gotta swim birds gotta fly; insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another. (p. 64)"

Here is a link to a video about a biological control that is being used to slow down the fire ants in the United States. The story involves eating brains and maggots, so if you aren't the horror film type you might not want to click the link (the images actually are pretty vanilla, it's the concept, really, that turns the stomach). I, of course, was fascinated.

Lets hope this works and doesn't backfire, as biological controls have a tendency to do.


Enjoy nature's brilliant atrocities,

Bp