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- No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese fire ants. They’ll wipe out the ticks.

- But aren’t the ants even worse?

- Yes, but we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of spider that thrives on ant meat.

- But then we’re stuck with spiders!

- No, that’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the spiders simply freeze to death.



The US as a whole does not have cold winters. States like Florida would still have those spiders.


This was riffing on a famous Simpsons bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY&t=1s


Ha! That's fun :')


Enter climate change and warming temperatures in winter.


Have you seen any ticks on Venus or Mars? Didn't think so...

So the climate change does solve the problem. Just have to take it far enough to combat these species.




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