Thanks! We've changed the URL to that from https://www.audubon.org/magazine/july-august-2015/one-remote....

Edit: changed back since people made reasonable objections.

The new URL is not available from Europe (http errorcode 451). This works though: https://archive.st/archive/2021/8/lmtribune.com/dxk9/lmtribu...

Is that really the right thing to do? The original article was interesting on its own merits. It’s a good follow up that the teams have been successful, but that link probably should just be pinned as a top comment reply.

I'm curious. The 2015 article said they'd killed 99% of the ants, but it took 6 more years to kill the rest? There's more to the story.

Like they said, a single ant queen can spawn a new mega colony, and there where more then just one or two queens involved.

Besides that in the same way they initially can to the island they might come there again so it's not over, just paused ;=)

It's like software delivery. You're always 80% done!