Here’s a headline I never thought I’d read.

  • Kowowow
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    7 days ago

    Feels like it would be easier to smuggle a handfull then start farming them

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        7 days ago

        Harder than digging and collecting then smuggling 2000 ant queens?

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          7 days ago

          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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            7 days 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