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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 70 days ago http://dawnsanders.blogspot.com/2008/05/crazy-rasberry-ants.html
| In other totally unrelated news, I'm discovering that the way I hold my torso has a strong effect on use of core muscles and back pain. Now on to the main point: psychotic flesh-eating ants are taking over Houston. ------------------------------------------------------------ Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics 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" — 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. "They're itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they're just running everywhere," said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly 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, fast. They're crazy." The ants — formall ... |
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