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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.
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The ants _ formally known as "paratrenicha species near pubens" _ have spread to five Houston-area counties since they were first spotted in Texas in 2002.

The newly recognized species is believed to have arrived in a cargo shipment through the port of Houston. Scientists are not sure exactly where the ants came from, but their cousins, commonly called crazy ants, are found in the Southeast and the Caribbean.

"At this point, it would be nearly impossible to eradicate the ant because it is so widely dispersed," said Roger Gold, a Texas A&M University entomologist.
(...) they, like some other species of ants, are attracted to electrical equipment, for reasons that are not well understood by scientists.

They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA's Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven't caused any major problems there yet.

Exterminators say calls from frustrated homeowners and businesses are increasing because the ants _ which are starting to emerge by the billions with the onset of the warm, humid season _ appear to be resistant to over-the-counter ant killers.

"The population built up so high that typical ant controls simply did no good," said Jason Meyers, an A&M doctoral student who is writing his dissertation on the one-eighth-inch-long ant.

It's not enough just to kill the queen. Experts say each colony has multiple queens that have to be taken out.
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Sounds like a two-parter...

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Finally, a semi-rational reason to nuke the hell out of Texas.

IF WE DON'T STOP THE ANTS OVER THERE, WHAT'S TO STOP THEM FROM COMING OVER HERE!?
 
The title lead me to believe this story was going to be about crazed Koreans.



As for the electronics-destroying ants, I've never heard of anything like that before. I wonder how long it'll take before they spread throughout the rest of the country.


I also wonder how they'll interact with the native species of ants, we've got some pretty fricking vicious fire ants down here.
 
I did a Zerg rush recently. I rallied brave defenders of Mother Russia (AKA Conscripts) into one massive army and bravely, they rushed the filthy capitalist pigs in Alaska, willing to die for the Motherland.
 
generalissimofurioso said:
Finally, a semi-rational reason to nuke the hell out of Texas.

IF WE DON'T STOP THE ANTS OVER THERE, WHAT'S TO STOP THEM FROM COMING OVER HERE!?
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HEY NOW!!! I work in Dallas.

As for the electronics-destroying ants, I've never heard of anything like that before. I wonder how long it'll take before they spread throughout the rest of the country.
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It's pretty common down here, I've had to put ant killer around my A/C units to keep the little buggers out. They like to get in there, build their nests, and fry various components.

Not to mention they are vicious little bastards. Especially the fire ants.

Every thing is bigger in Texas.


* Note: I wasn't actually born in this God forsaken state, I used to live in Michigan, but began my sentence when the parents moved down here in the 80's. Seriously, it's not all bad, at least I don't have to shovel snow anymore.
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
I also wonder how they'll interact with the native species of ants, we've got some pretty fricking vicious fire ants down here.
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I’ve got it on good authority that they EAT THEM RAW and their souls, too. :twisted:
 
Pope Viper said:
generalissimofurioso said:
Finally, a semi-rational reason to nuke the hell out of Texas.

IF WE DON'T STOP THE ANTS OVER THERE, WHAT'S TO STOP THEM FROM COMING OVER HERE!?
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HEY NOW!!! I work in Dallas.
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Hey, you're either with "them" or your with us.
 
Diamsus said:
Ha! Americans will they ever learn.
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moving a specie to a area where they do not belong, and watch them cause havoc, is not exactly an american only thing. In fact it is more a human thing.

Title of thread had me laughing though.
 
Hmmm... "Ants" that like to foul up electrical equipment? Seeing as how they came to the states via a cargo container, 95% of which are inbound from China leaves the conspiracy nut that lives in my brain pan wondering... "perhaps China has far exceeded the rest of the world in the area of nanotechnology" mehehehehe.

On a similar topic I once worked with a x-trucker at a warehouse for about a year. He told me that on countless occasions he'd be driving a container that was fresh off a boat, and when he got it to it's destination and opened it up a few hundred bats would fly out. Wonder what those critters are up to these days as this would have been at least 6 years ago.

We are in for an interesting century ladies and gents ! ;)
 
Seems to be some fan Art from the Secret Red Alert level ?

IT came from the desert... it's just not as big, as we thought ;)
I've got a good idea, to get them down you will need to import lot of Ant bears!
After that you import tons of Jaguars!
And after that... ;)))
 
Its actually in the red alert directory. It came with several themes that you can put on your 98 desktop. This is one of them.
 
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