04-27-2015, 04:01 AM
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Originally posted by ironyak
FYI, it's not little fire ants that were found:
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Doing a cursory survey of the protest area around April 16, ants that are common at lower elevations but haven't gained a foothold on Mauna Kea's heights were discovered in a pile of palms that was being used to thatch a hale across from the visitor information station at about 9,400 feet, Klasner said.
Klasner said six of the little black critters known as Ochetellus glaber were collected and others were observed."
Rob - can you weigh in on posting content on PW from behind a paywall?
It is good that they weren't LFAs, but there are no native ants in Hawaii, all are non native invasive species, so they still carelessly introduced a species up there that did not live there before.