Anyone with ants in garden must ‘watch out’ for ‘dangerous’ species

Gardeners were asked to pay attention to a new type of destructive ant detected in the UK. It is thought that Magnum Ant comes to Europe through imported plants in garden centers.

And they caused turmoil – and it was described as one of the most devastating invasive species in Germany.

However, they are now seen in the UK, and according to some experts, there are signs that ants are something other than normal.

Small species measuring about 4 mm were once largely limited to the warmer climates of the Mediterranean region. Naturally or naturally settled in Italy in Italy through the developing trade between ancient Rome and North Africa. Recently, it has been settled in the southwest and Rheinland regions of Germany.

And now in England – Royston, Hertfordshire. Ants are infertile and are known to bite all kinds of infrastructure. In Kehl, near the French border, the city damaged the public infrastructure and fell into power and the internet caused by ants.

The ants have been found in ten European countries, including France, Belgium, England and even Azerbaijan.

The ants penetrate into the gaps in buildings and infiltrate the electrical boxes, using cables to move into spaces that cause power cuts in Kehl. In Karlsruhe, the city’s suburban railway fights with loose sidewalks near the platforms weakened by ant colonies.

. British Pest Control Association This week emphasized the problem and BPCA Technical Manager Niall Gallagher said: “Research shows that T. Magnum colonies are quite cold for an Mediterranean species.

“This kind of stiffness is combined with warmer winters and longer summers in the UK, making it more likely to colonization more likely in time.”

Niall said that they have behaviors showing how they create long trails on verandas, “In fact, most people and even professional pest controllers would fight to tell the Tapinoma Magnum to explain except for common species such as Black Garden Ant (Lasius Niger).

“Visually, the two ants are very similar and requires laboratory analysis to confirm fine anatomical differences. If you are not an expert with an ant taxonomy experience, it is difficult to define T. Magnum based on appearance alone.

“In the field, you would probably rely on behavioral clues – especially the distinctive regiment behavior. These ants often form long, intense trails between verands, pavements and walls that connect different parts of their super attachments.”

Wildlife website Bees, donkeys and ants He said he found the types of a member in Royston Herts. In a new article, he said: “They develop with many queens in a private garden and have a few nests and were seen in two gardens, one 200 meters away. A professional gardener recognized very little black ants as something special about 5 years ago. When he published some photos and notes in the UK, he attracted the Facebook page.

“Samples were requested and some were sent to Bernhard Seifert, some of which described them as T. Pygmaeum in Germany. These ants are unique to Southern Europe and their assets are a result of global warming. However, they seem to be very likely to continue in Royston for 5 years or more outdoors, because they can continue elsewhere in Britain.

In Marlen, a suburb of Kehl, a children’s playground should be closed after shaking hands under a large number of ant -ground tunnel. As animals settled in private gardens, there is a psychological cost, where they leave scars on the limbs of the landlords, invad their homes, and cause the proliferation of plant lice, which serves as nutrition for fertilizer ants.

Manfred Verhaagh, one of the scientists behind Karlsruhe and Stuttgart’s natural history museums in the museums of Natural History, spent “clocks üzere to investigate a way to defeat them. Im I couldn’t find anything, ”he said, aggressive pesticides are often prohibited in Germany and that they could increase the decrease in all insects.

Municipal teams in cities such as Tübingen and Kehl are now using boiling water to the soil at 95 ° C to prevent chemicals. However, it is known that the tempinoma magnum can take more temperatures by drawing more to the survival at temperatures below minus 10C.