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Garden Ants Are the New European Invaders The common garden ant (L. neglectus) has only been discovered in 1990, when it had already infested numerous cities throughout Europe, from the Black Sea to Germany. These insects number in the millions and are now moving north, towards Denmark, the Baltic states and the UK. There is little anyone can do about it, gi... 3 December 2008 03:20 GMT The Best Flea Slayer: the Vacuum Cleaner! Is your body covered by flea bites from head to toes? Buy a vacuum cleaner! It will kill 96 % of the adult fleas and all their larvae! These are the results of a research carried on at the Ohio State University and published in "Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata".The researchers were so amazed by this that th... 18 December 2007 05:34 GMT Sex, (No) Parasites, (No) Predators, (No) Diseases, Competition When in the 50's the British first released American ruddy ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis) onto their ponds in southeast England, they did not suspect the ecological disaster they would bring. At the same time, the Spanish biologists were intending to protect the last individuals of the ruddy's European relative... 19 September 2007 14:26 GMT