Grass-cutting ants occur in the Chaco region of north Argentina and Paraguay and belong to a subgroup of leaf-cutting ants that specialise in harvesting grass leaves.
The comment was made by Simon Hamilton who proposed the DUP motion calling on the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and the DRD Roads Service to develop a joint service to facilitate more efficient cutting of grassin public spaces.
At Askernish, Ebert and Irvine were determined to create golf holes the way Morris and his contemporaries did, by doing virtually nothing beyond cutting the grass and filling in old rabbit burrows.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa lost control on a couple of occasions and ended up deep in the gravel at Turn Nine, before cutting along the grass to rejoin the action.
Other options to reduce the council's expenditure in the long term include closing estate offices and charging tenants for grass and hedge cutting or doing away with the service altogether.
In his blog, Mr Fallows has also sought views on whether the council should reduce the frequency of street cleaning and grasscutting to save money, or if such action would be damaging in terms of tourism.