Ants to the rescue: How super-organisms could become super pest controllers

Sunday, August 30, 2015 - 23:30 in Biology & Nature

As global population rises and finite resources dwindle, farmers need new, more sustainable ways to control pests. Now, ecologists have found a safe, sustainable and cost-effective new pest control. But rather than a high-tech compound or genetic technology, it's a tiny, low-tech organism: the ant.

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