My friend wants to release his colony of red imported fire ants into a park.

[Hunter36o]

Normally I hate to hate but that is scum. Firstly he should not have had imported ants and second although I understand he gained an allergy to them but this does not excuse the fact you cannot release fire ants and to kill a whole colony just to be rid of them! This dude has no love. Now in saying that I do have a personal opinion that if they are currently not roaming the house they are not a pest and if they are not a pest in this case a PET. This is animal cruelty. Destroying an ant colony is like saying I am bored with America. Kill em all. It is unjustified. I can only hope you convince him or her to back off from keeping ants if their go to solution is to kill. Plus you said they did not care for the aftermath of releasing ants in a local park.

But this does open a question for the gan project. What if we do have situations like this but are in a position to take in the ants? I know the gan does not support the importation of ants but can we ignore this if taking in such a colony safes them being released into the wild? Take for example that I am from Ireland so we have a very limited range of ants so people are going to import some. Do i let them die or destroy the local area (both of these options to not sit well with me for life is life regardless of size and origin) or do I take them in to save both them and the local environment/ local ants?

q

I don't think he killed twhem on purpose.

Didn't he tho because he could not release them?

[AntsDakota]

Normally I hate to hate but that is scum. Firstly he should not have had imported ants and second although I understand he gained an allergy to them but this does not excuse the fact you cannot release fire ants and to kill a whole colony just to be rid of them! This dude has no love. Now in saying that I do have a personal opinion that if they are currently not roaming the house they are not a pest and if they are not a pest in this case a PET. This is animal cruelty. Destroying an ant colony is like saying I am bored with America. Kill em all. It is unjustified. I can only hope you convince him or her to back off from keeping ants if their go to solution is to kill. Plus you said they did not care for the aftermath of releasing ants in a local park.

But this does open a question for the gan project. What if we do have situations like this but are in a position to take in the ants? I know the gan does not support the importation of ants but can we ignore this if taking in such a colony safes them being released into the wild? Take for example that I am from Ireland so we have a very limited range of ants so people are going to import some. Do i let them die or destroy the local area (both of these options to not sit well with me for life is life regardless of size and origin) or do I take them in to save both them and the local environment/ local ants?

q

I don't think he killed twhem on purpose.

Didn't he tho because he could not release them?

Now that I read it again, yes. At first I thought he said that his friend didn't realize that ant gel kills ants and put them in one of them and they died. I now agree with you that killing the ants outright was cruel. I would never do that no matter how allergic I am to an ant colony.

[Hunter36o]

Yeah I understand he had an allergy but a new home was in my opinion the best that should have been taken here. But sadly what's done is done.

I just cough 7 queens after a flight just broke out in my area and as i am typing this. A drone lands on my arm for a breather. Bro to bro support shall be given hahaha