Invasive ants selectively abandon toxic baits, evading our most effective eradication method

Invasive ants are economically costly and ecologically devastating, and most of our eradication attempts have failed. Now, researchers at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Regensburg have discovered that these ants can evade the most ecological friendly and effective control method we have—toxic baits—by rapidly abandoning them before the ants can be killed.