"crazy" computer eating ants!
"They’re voracious eaters, hairy and just about unstoppable."
Scientists are unsure of their origin and have had to recognize them as a new species and think they have been brought to Huston by a cargo ship. No article I found lists exactly where from they think they arrived. They're called Rasberry ants after a local exterminator that was the first in trying exterminating them. They're also called crazy ants because instead of marching in a single straight line, like so many ants do, they just swarm everywhere without any apparent rhyme or reason.
"They take over whole neighborhoods sometimes. There are just thousands and thousands of them all over the property."
Apparently, they're so bad ass, that they eat fire ants, that Texas is known for. They also eat little wild chicken hatchlings too. But the craziest thing is, is that they eat electronic equipment, like computers, fire alarms, gas meters, pumps at sewage pumping stations, televisions, etc...
"They do get into electrical outlets and boxes,"
apparently they're attracted to the wiring and chew through it whenever possible.
and they're super smart too. after spraying pesticides, they use the dead ants as makeshift bridges, by piling them up and traveling over the dead bodies in order to cross the pesticide treated surfaces.
better make sure you check your phone receiver before putting it to your ear.....ewww.....
