From Wired.com, May 14, 2008...
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as "crazy rasberry ants" - crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and "rasberry" after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Non-native ants bugging parts of Texas
From KXAN.com, May 13, 2008...
Experts say a swarm of ants not native to Texas is spreading across the state and wreaking havoc.
It's thought that the so-called "crazy rasberry ants" arrived aboard a cargo ship in 2002.
Since then they've run rampant in homes and yards across the Houston area.
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Experts say a swarm of ants not native to Texas is spreading across the state and wreaking havoc.
It's thought that the so-called "crazy rasberry ants" arrived aboard a cargo ship in 2002.
Since then they've run rampant in homes and yards across the Houston area.
Read more...
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