{"id":1183,"date":"2024-02-07T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:54:08","slug":"invasive-species-are-everywhere-this-time-its-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/2024\/02\/07\/invasive-species-are-everywhere-this-time-its-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive Species are Everywhere- This Time, its Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invasive species have been messing with the natural ecological order in various locations around the globe for several years. This example comes from Kenya, in which a very small animal is having very large impacts on the food chain. Bigheaded ants (<em>Pheidole megacephala<\/em>) kill off the native species of ants, which creates a domino effect, essentially, hungry elephants have more trees to uproot for food since the native species typically protects this tree by biting the elephant from the inside of its nose out. With the trees being uprooted, the Lions have more trouble stalking their prey (in this case, zebras).<\/p>\n<p>This post had me thinking about invasive species local to my region of the United States, the northeast, specifically New Jersey. We have an ongoing issue with Spotted Lanternflies, which are destroying crops in the region. The residents of my state are strongly encouraged to kill them when they spot them.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any invasive species in your region that are proving to have ecological consequences? Do you think teachers should teach children about the impacts of these invasive species in whatever region they teach?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kimohiyHdT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/invasive-ant-lion-dinner-trees-ecosystem\">How an invasive ant changed a lion\u2019s dinner menu<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How an invasive ant changed a lion\u2019s dinner menu&#8221; &#8212; Science News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/invasive-ant-lion-dinner-trees-ecosystem\/embed#?secret=XN1PCID8pp#?secret=kimohiyHdT\" data-secret=\"kimohiyHdT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invasive species have been messing with the natural ecological order in various locations around the globe for several years. This example comes from Kenya, in which a very small animal is having very large impacts on the food chain. Bigheaded &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/2024\/02\/07\/invasive-species-are-everywhere-this-time-its-ants\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}