According to Orange/Ananova (In Leeds) and The Scotsman (Scotland’s National Online Newspaper):
I guess it’s not easy being green.
I myself really never held much animosity toward ants in my formative years. Sure, we’d blow up the occasional anthill with firecrackers as kids – but that was the extent of it. I never really put ants in the same “vermin category” as cockroaches but that attitude changed and the need for poison became reality after a flying ant attack in an apartment I used to live in. I must have used 5 cans of Raid last summer upon discovering a nest of ants behind the tile walls of the bathroom I was gutting.
I liken the use of pest control (whether it be insecticide or baking powder) around one’s property to a “No Solicitors” sign on one’s front door. Sending out a warning to unwelcome visitors seems both fair and legal.
For all I know, this law is some kind of internet hoax.
Are the Greens on the continent that powerful that they can get legislation passed that prohibits the killing of unwelcome picnic guests? Did the Dreamworks film Ants have more of a sentimental impact on the German people than it did here in the US? Don’t birds and other predatory insects do a better job of killing “conifer-destroying” pests? Don’t carpenter ants (who last time I checked fall into the category of ants) destroy trees?
Who knows. Maybe The world’s all right and I’m all wrong.
