Topix Underground

"Cocaine and ivory are not as profitable as ants. Smuggling is changing. 2,200 African giant ants – each one individually in a test tube – seized at Nairobi airport. Destination: China. 
'Belgians' and Vietnamese had already tried to smuggle the same species to Europe. 
Each individual queen could have founded a new colony in southern Europe. With a size of up to 2.5 centimeters, they displace native insects, destroy bumblebee nesting sites, and steal seeds en masse – which radically alters the entire plant world and thus the food base for pollinators. 
Price in Europe: 
233 dollars per queen. Total value: over a million dollars. 
Illegal wildlife trade doesn't just affect elephants. It undermines global biodiversity – one colony at a time. 
Because it doesn't matter to them what harm they do to all of us. "




It's not about bio-terrorism. It's this new craze in elaborate "ant farms" (formicariums). From the same people that brought you Burmese  pythons, nutrias and Asian carp.


Let this be a lesson from nature about forced 'diversity'.