Ants

Spotted this in the news:

"A new ant which was discovered less than 20 years ago could be on the way to wreak havoc in parks and gardens of Northern Europe including Britain."

Ants? It's hardly going to be the next summer blockbuster is it? We get invaded and the scariest thing they could send is an ant.

They are the Lasius neglectus ant and when they move into a new area they quickly exterminate its local rivals.

So, it's an ant that invades but by doing so gets rid of the other ants that you were having problems with. That's almost quite kind of it.

It resembles the common black garden ant but the number of workers crawling around is between 10 and 100 times greater.

So it will look like a kid has dropped an ice lolly on the floor even when they haven't.

Maybe I should be more scared, but I'm not, and here's why. Dr Sylvia Cremer said: "We found that invasive garden ants developed from species in the Black Sea region that have natural populations with small networks of interconnected nests with many queens that mate underground and don't fly."

As long as they don't fly they can come round here any day. It's the flying ones that freak me out.

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