Australia's Cane Toad Problem

Just 101 cane toads were introduced to Australia from Hawaii in 1935. That number is now estimated to be 200 million and rising. Now Australian scientists think have found a way of combating the plague-like spread of the hated Cane Toad. It is the meat ant, native to Australia. Meat ants or meat-eater ants live in underground nests that house up to 64,000 of them. Barely one centimet...

MediaScrape | March 31, 2009

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