Crazy Rasberry Ants Eat Electronics

it sounds like the find of a farfetched science fiction talking picture. unfortunately for the residents of texas, it is very much a reality: billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything electronic.computers, thief alarm systems, gas and energy meters, ipods, telephone exchanges all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, through despite reasons that have progressive scientists baffled.having ruined pumps at a sewage Nautical head, the ants are now marching towards nasa’s johnson lacuna centre and william p. recreation airport, houston, putting state officials in a panic. “they’re itty-bitty things, and they’re lawful running everywhere,” said patsy morphew, a home-owner of pearland, on the gulf coast.she spends hours sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. “there’s just thousands and thousands of them. if you’ve seen a car racing, that’s how they are. they’re going fast, fast, attached. they’re inane.” crazy is the the strategic word. the ants are known as “crazy rasberry ants”: crazy because they seem to move in a random scrum as opposed to marching in regimented lines, and rasberry after a pioneering exterminator, tom rasberry, who first identified them as a incorrigible.the ants also known as paratrenicha species near pubens tease so farther spread to five counties in the houston area. scientists are not sure from where they originate but they seem to be interdependent to a type of ant from the caribbean. “at this point it would be barely illogical to eradicate the ants because they are so widely dispersed,” said roger gold, a texas a&m university entomologist. he added that the only upside to the invasion was that the crazy rasberry ants ate fire ants, which sting humans during the extended, hot texas summers.unfortunately, the ants also like to suck the moisture from plants, feed on precious insects such as ladybirds and eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered type of grouse known as the attwater prairie chicken. they also bite humans although not with a sting like enkindle ants.perhaps their most remarkable characteristic, come what may, is that they are attracted to electrical equipment. irritant control specialists hint that they are inundated with calls from homes and businesses sometimes that the hospitable, humid season has begun, with literally billions of the ants wreaking havoc across the state. worse, the ants refuse to die when sprayed with over-the-counter poison. even killing the queen of a colony doesn’t do any capable, because each colony has multiple queens.the texas department of agriculture said that it was working with researchers from a&m university and the environmental bulwark agency to find reborn ways to stop the ants.

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