Sentence examples for Ant invasion from inspiring English sources

I guess that's how a fire ant invasion looks to small animals in the ecosystem.

Coarse, well-drained soils supported an Argentine ant invasion of lower abundance and lesser spatial penetration than soils that should retain more moisture.

The best predictions of the extent of Argentine ant invasion were based on the distance of each site to developed areas.

Now, researchers at the University of California at San Diego, in papers in the journals Conservation Biology and Ecology Applications, report that coastal horned lizards, already threatened by loss of habitat, have suffered from the ant invasion as well.

When her kitchen had an ant invasion, she greased long stretches of twine with chicken fat and tied a bone to the end in her garden, leading the ants on a savory march outside — cruelty-free pest control.

Both companies claim that this sudden ant invasion is simply coincidence, but it is hard not to imagine that there is more at work than meets the antenna.

Timber harvests may facilitate ant invasions of forested landscapes, fostering interactions between non-native and native ants.

Healthy ecosystems, he says, are not as susceptible to fire ant invasions.

To find out whether ant invasions harm the lizards, conservation biologist Andrew Suarez of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues censused horned lizards over 3 years at 21 sites in four southern California counties.

The images include missing ceiling tiles, broken sinks and water fountains, ant invasions, dead roaches and rat droppings.

Many traits associated with invasion success in ants, such as monopolization of carbohydrate resources [6], supercoloniality and disturbance should be investigated in more details to understand at which extent P. chinensis fits the model developed for ant invasions.