Invasion of the raspberry ants. AGHH!
Not the kind of news I usually cover but as someone who's watched waaaay too many bad SciFi channel movies, and who has a housemate who is morbidly fascinated with the newest and scariest in ecological disasters, I couldn't resist this story about billions of ants overrunning Houston.
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.link
They are omivorous and will eat everything from flora to other insects and even the hatchlings of a local grouse called the prarie chicken. They have destroyed all matter of electrical equipment, insinuating themselves into fire alarms and sewage pumps, mucking up the works as they go. link
If any raspberry ants are listening...please make your next stop Crawford.
Reminds me of Simpsons moment, from news anchor Kent Brockman:
“Ladies and gentlemen, er, we’ve just lost the picture, but, uh, what we’ve seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over — ‘conquered’, if you will — by a master race of giant space ants. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to…toil in their underground sugar caves.”
Posted by: quill | May 16, 2008 at 08:56 AM