{"id":950,"date":"2005-03-24T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/03\/24\/ants-and-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2005-03-24T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T14:37:00","slug":"ants-and-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/ants-and-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants and Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gil Friend <\/a>points us to news<\/a> from NewScientist.com that suggests that global warming could cause more ant infestations:<\/p>\n Global warming might shrink ant workers by as much as a third, says Michael Kaspari at the University of Oklahoma, US, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, who carried out the study: ‘And since ant species with small workers appear to be particularly successful at invading, ant invasions – already destructive – may become more common in a warming world.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gil’s probably right that this will be ridiculed by those who question the science of climate change. I have to wonder, though, if this couldn’t be a really big problem for less developed countries.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: climate change<\/a>, ants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gil Friend points us to news from NewScientist.com that suggests that global warming could cause more ant infestations: Global warming might shrink ant workers by as much as a third, [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n