Can you spare 20 minutes of your time to fill out a simple questionnaire about your property and the presence or absence of the jack jumper ant?
The School of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania is conducting a survey to find out in which suburbs of Hobart jack jumper ants are likely to occur in and which suburbs they are unlikely to occur in. We require participants who are willing to spare 20 minutes of their time to fill out a simple questionnaire about their house and garden and whether the jack jumper ant is present or not.
The answers that participants provide in the survey will guide future management recommendations to minimise the threat to humans from jack jumper stings by helping to predict and identify areas of Hobart and surrounds where there is a high risk of a human–jack jumper encounter.
It is important that we receive questionnaires from participants who have gardens without the ant just as much as we receive them from participants who have seen ants in their gardens. So even if you have never seen a jack jumper ant in your garden, we are still interested in hearing from you.
If you would like us to send you a copy through the mail, or further information, please email providing your address or call John on 0407 224 032.
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