Pest control: Ants to the fore
January 15, 2016, 12:00 pm
Sooner or later the world is going to have to stop using chemical pesticides. The statistics in India WHO says cancer shows an increase of 60% in just 15 years (1998-2013) and this could only be due to the chemical pollution caused by these unnecessary and vicious compounds that simply create money for their sellers and the people who give them licences and death for farmers and consumers. We need to identify safer, more sustainable and low tech ways to control pests; and what better than the most intelligent, miraculous beings on earth – ants. These super-organisms could become super pest controllers.