“WORLD’S WORST PEST"
ARGENTINE ANT INVADES AUSTRALIA Australia has been, invaded by what has been called the “world’s worst pest”—the Argentine ant. This pest has already caused so much trouble in the infested areas that some residents have been forced to leave their homes. It is impossible to keep the ants out of the houses. They have even invaded beds, and mothers have been, obliged to stand their babies’ perambulators in water to ward them off. A distracted householder wrote to Mr John Clark, entomologist of the National Museum, asking for help to " fight the peSt and enclosing specimens. Mr Clark was astonished to discover the Argentine ant in Australia. No other kind of ant is now to be seen in the neighbourhood affected. All of them—some of them useful —have been driven out by the Argentine ant.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3667, 13 February 1940, Page 2
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