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Help!
I am the leader of a new country, and I am having a problem with giant ants. These things are about 15cm in length and have a nasty bite, which requires hospital attention. I have asked the military and police to try and rid the pests, but due to limited defnce, 25% of my forces are off work due to bites.
Could another nation offer a corporate delegate to advise me on how to eradicate this problem? Or possible eradicate it for me? I am willing to give a substantial amount of Buttons (my currency, exchange rate 100btn = 1cUS) to assist in whatever is necessary, or provide you with whatever information you require.
Thankyou for your time.

President Daisy
The Free Land of Heggles

Have you tried using geneticly altered pesticide? That stuff did wonders for our radioactive ghould infestation a few years back.

Genetically altered pesticide? I haven't tried it yet. My laboratories are now concentrating on genetic science, but unfortunatly not without some 'incidents'. I am worried that the pesticide may not kill the ants, but may alter them instead.
What findings have you discovered in your studies? I do not wish to use something that has not been properly studied, and I would like to know side-effects etc.
Also, I don't want hippies banging down the doors, you know what they're like... :rolleyes:

try my genomes, they will gain an immunity after 3 bites

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:eek: Giant Ants :eek: !?!?!?! boy your screwed...

Napalm. :D

Yea...Napalm...or boiling water...boiling water works for me....

wow... didnt know the simulation was this realistic..... yes, i am new, as you can see. but i agree with napalm!

Round them up into camps and make them work to death digging their own graves...

or napalm

Isaac wrote this

You could try to evacuate your citizens for a short period and have your nation carpet bombed, sure it will destroy all the buildings, but it will almost definitely wipe out every ant that gets caught in the blasts.

Tie everything down, and I'l come along and suck them all up into grenades that make tiny short-lived black holes. It's all good then.

you forget, ants can burrow deep underground and survive in many conditions humans can not. I'd just wipe out them and the hippies with some virus thingy all at the same time.

Are they all over the place or are they in a general area, this could cut the expenses of bombing by an enormous amount.

It's all to complicated! MOLTEN SILVER!

I think I've actually got the answer. What you have to do is force them into an enclosure that has glass walls at about 45 degree angles, and that is air tight. Then you have to put on an airtight roof, next pump the enclosure full of Carbon Dioxide or some other poisonous gas. Once the ants are dead you pump out the gas and remove the enclosure. You could then dispose of the ants however you see fit. It is one of the least destructive methods I've seen because only kills the plant and animal life inside the enclosed space, and since CO2 is a natural gas it won't be very difficult to aquire or dispose of.

I think I've actually got the answer. What you have to do is force them into an enclosure that has glass walls at about 45 degree angles, and that is air tight. Then you have to put on an airtight roof, next pump the enclosure full of Carbon Dioxide or some other poisonous gas. Once the ants are dead you pump out the gas and remove the enclosure. You could then dispose of the ants however you see fit. It is one of the least destructive methods I've seen because only kills the plant and animal life inside the enclosed space, and since CO2 is a natural gas it won't be very difficult to aquire or dispose of.

Carbon Dioxide wouldn't kill plants, it's like pumping an enclosed room of people full of oxygen.

True, though that particular phrase was an a bit of an after thought about if he used a different gas, like mustard gas for example, or sarin.

Try peaceful negotiations... :D or if not... :gundge:

Carbon Dioxide wouldn't kill plants, it's like pumping an enclosed room of people full of oxygen.

too much oxygen can actually kill... or so ive been told.

Temproraily evacuate your poppulation, then detonate a neutron bomb. The radiation it generates will cause the ants to disintegrate. Hopefully, if its a well made neutron bomb, the radiation will quickly disipate. If not, Your country will be safe and ant free in 50 to 75 years ;) .

15cm!? That's extremely big for an ant. Why don't you just smush all of them you see, Or is it more complicated then that wiping out a whole species what eats these creatures what do these creatures eat because there is numerous traps you could set to lurer out these insects...

Of course if the bomb isn't perfectly built and detonated you might have the opposite effect. You would only make those ants meaner, and radioactive. There is nothing worse than mad, radioactive, giant ants, except for mad, radioactive, giant spiders.

Why dont you send them to us in little boxes. We can add them to our tiny military.

A communique from Ximea's Bio-Sciences Division:

We want your ants. Send us as many as you can, and we'll do what we can to create a virus which specifically targets their species. The only stipulation is that we must have enough fertile queens or queen/male pairs in addition to soldiers and workers to create a sustainable population. A few dozen would be nice; a hundred would be better. When we've created the virus, you can have it for free.

Relocate, and nuke the bastards. I'm sure they couldn't withstand the tempature 10x hotter than the sun under ground. Or....I HAVE IT! Build a giant magnify glass! AHA!