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, Posts: By LINDA STEWART BALL, Associated Press Writer Wed May 14, 3:16 PM ET DALLAS - 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"...
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... on the lake. Along the way, we spotted lots of cool animals. We saw a bunch of leafcutter ants, which despite their disgusting status as ants, are really cool! They are the only animals that practice agriculture, and they actually cut leaves not to eat, but to use as fertilizer to grow mushrooms inside their anthills, which they then eat. We know we probably learned that back...
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DailyTech writes a new species of ants named crazy rasberry ants is invading Houston homes. These ants cause harm to electronic devices like computers and stack their dead to avoid pesticides on surfaces: A new species of ant has arrived in Houston and is believed to have come to Texas via a cargo ship that arrived at the Port of Houston. The ants are called crazy rasberry...
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Tom Rasberry, the exterminator, with the alien ants he first identified as a problem Chris Ayres in Los Angeles It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. 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, burglar...
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NASA moves to save computers from swarming ants , ComputerWorld "A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios and even vehicles in their path. Even the Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems. The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties...
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Crazy Rasberry ants [ Paratrechina sp. near pubens ] have invaded Houston, and they're eating the electronics . "Crazy" refers to their erratic swarming movements, unlike many species' neat linear lockstep; and "Rasberry" comes from Tom Rasberry, the Texas exterminator first credited with noticing them on a job: "I think they go into everything, and they don't follow any kind of structured line....
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'Crazy Raspberry' Ants Swarm Over Texas Coast The invading ants, first discovered by (and named for) exterminator Tom Rasberry in 2002, are quickly becoming a serious pest (YouTube) due to their voracious appetite for electronics (also YouTube), sparking fears that they may interfere with Houston's Hobby Airport and the Johnson Space Center. They are pesticide resistant, form multi-queen...
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The ants “go into everything, and they don't follow any kind of structured line,” said Rasberry. “If you open a computer, you would find a cluster of ants on the motherboard and all over. You'd get 3,000 or 4,000 ants inside, and they create arcs. They'll wipe out any computer.”
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The Texas Gulf Coast in the United States is being invaded by tiny, hairy, long-legged, reddish ants. They are called Crazy Rasberry ants after the exterminator who first battled them...
Inside the Bay Area (Free subscription) | yesterday
May 16, 2008Forget the crazy rasberry ants, the lightning bugs have returned!Besides sudden cravings for ice cream cones, how do you know when summer is right around the corner?There's one sign of the season that has all but disappeared, until recently, and unexpectedly, showed up in Clear Lake. Also known as Fireflies, although they are actually a type of beetle, these small, flying, miniature...
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A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios and even vehicles in their path.
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First it was killer bees, then Argentine ants … Now, welcome our electronic-eating ant overlords: It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. 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 [...]
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