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[Uncletommy]

my cousin lives out in America and wants a lasius niger queen, can i send him one or are there customs laws? If so what can i do to get them to him.

cheers

[mpir]

It is illegal to send queens to USA. Sorry, there's not much you can do about it.

[miszt]

As mpir says, its illegal, and they are very strict

[SirJet]

Forgive the expression but they've already been stung once with the introduction of the Red Fire Ant, so you can understand why they are cautious.

[Uncletommy]

so what would happen if i were to send one in a small padded envelope. Surely they dont scan all letters? it's lasius niger so it wouldnt do any environmental damage even if it was released

[miszt]

Why cant they collect there own queen? the US has many many species of ant and they are flying constantly for the next 2months

Also you should respect the owners of this forum, and not discuss illegal activities

[Uncletommy]

im not doing anything illegal. It's purely hypothetical now. Don't get your knickers in a twist

[miszt]

As it goes, Lasius niger are extremly agressive, we have no way to know what will happen if they adapted to other countries, and the liklyhood is they will very easily.

Its illegal, and asking people how to get around the law on this forum is very disrespectful. Posts like these will get you banned on other forums

There is also the issue of import/export of species in Europe, there are people, with the power to make it happen, that want this trade banned, due to peoples negligence with various invasive and destructive species, and threads like this just give them more amunition to throw at the cause.

[JimmyVe]

I'm going to leave this thread open because it is an discussion, keep it that way.

[moxi93]

i wish it wasnt ilegal. be cool to have fire ants lol. but anyway dont risk it, its ilegal.

[JimmyVe]

Hello Moxi93 and welcome to the forum.

I think most of us would like more ants from other countries. Like we all would like to keep ants from Australia. But the law is the law and there is not much we can do about that.
Fire ants are dangerous don't forget that, not only for you but if they would escape the could endanger the local nature.

[Andrew]

Yeah I agree, fire ants are a very invasive species, they expand quickly and reproduce like mad. I highly recommend that no one try them.

[miszt]

i wish it wasnt ilegal. be cool to have fire ants lol. but anyway dont risk it, its ilegal.

Solenopsis invicta are not just in America, I had a colony not so long ago

[zachman030]

if your american couzin wants to buy queens tell him to look for an american site

[delete-14751]

Im sure i read somwhere there are some L.niger in parts of the U.S.A

As for introducing a so called "harmless" ant, L.niger are very hardy and would have no problem becoming a major pest over there. Don't do it im sure if he just looks around american sites he will find what he wonts, if not somthing close to it.