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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Farming non-native species can be incredibly difficult.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Harder than digging and collecting then smuggling 2000 ant queens?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

    If you're using Kenyan labor, I imagine that the collecting is probably pretty inexpensive. Wages in Kenya probably aren't going to be very high.

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    https://humancapital.worldbank.org/en/economy/KEN

    According to that, 70.1% of the population makes less than $3.65/day (2021 numbers). If the comment in this thread about a queen selling for $200 is accurate, you can probably afford to put a lot of human labor into collecting.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    would be really funny if the guy put out a bounty of like 50 bucks for a queen and word got around so fast he ended up with too many and he might as well try to sell them back home

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